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Naa … it's the 21st century that is being dismantled … and not nearly fast enough … we are trying to get back to the 20th century
you know those traits, personal responsibility, hard work, integrity, and honesty. Unlike those of today, where we whine and cry, that we are Americans and are owed everything …that hard work is for suckers, and we shouldn't have to worry about such mundane things, because we are owed all those things that the generations before us had to work for. In the 21st century we are responsible for nothing, we didn't get good grades it school .. . why it's someone else fault … we couldn't get into a good college because of those grades .. well thats just unfair … it's not my fault, flunked out of college, because the professors didn't like me .. . it wasn't my fault, commit a crime … why of course it societies fault not mine, get out of jail, and it's our jails fault that I can't survive cause they didn't teach me any skills. Now I want SS benefits … I didn't earn them but they are owed to me .. because … will I don't know .. but it wasn't my fault for how I turned out.
Views like that are a cartoon stereotype wrapped in a Halloween costume of what self serving right wingers want to think progressive politics are.
The progressive reforms of the 20th century in America are indeed under attack and being repealed piece by piece and state by state. We will soon be wallowing in a new Gilded Age where corporations run the nation like slave masters on the old plantation and corporations control state houses and Congress like the old trusts did in the late 1800's.
And we will have people like Paul Weyrich, the Koch Brothers, Grove Norquist and their sycophants and toadies in the conservative and libertarian movements to thank for it.