Oftencold
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 10, 2008
- Messages
- 5,044
- Reaction score
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- Location
- A small village in Alaska
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
Your idea of right-wing is if every single progressive action that has ever occurred was repealed in its entirety since the inception of the U.S. This is the kind of black and white, extremist, far-right thinking that has gotten us into so much trouble recently. You see this as "normal".
Look at what has happened in the last 30-40 years. Unions have largely been broken, they wield substantially less power than they ever have. Corporate interests have soared, CEO, executive pay have soared to unprecedented levels while worker pay has been stagnant since about 1980. Corporations / business interests have almost complete control of congress. The financial industries have been largely deregulated with disastrous consequences yet right-wing propaganda is still pushing harder and harder for even more deregulation and anyone who disagrees is a communist / socialist. Wealth inequality is extremely high, the middle class is continuously shrinking and becoming weaker and weaker.
Are you blind to this?
Unions are simply legalized extortion. I detest them.
Again, we must move beyond fantasy. I look abut me and see little of this "disastrous consequence" that you imagine that I would not primarily ascribe to the consequences of excessive government. The "Stimulus" scam, the interference of the government in the housing market, the interference in wages, and now, the "health care" debacle in which a foolish people imagines that a collection of lawyers can constructively take effective control of the medical industry, about which they possess little to no expertise.
I will repeat something I've said before. To be a Modern Leftist in America is to live in a dream world. It is a set of poor mental habits unsuitable for actualized adults.
Reality beckons to you. She is a harsh, but ultimately inescapable mistress. Submit to her. You will in the end anyway.