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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen We Get Through This, Can WE Leverage it to an "Awakening"?
On a mass scale?
Can it be done?
Should we think about that NOW?
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)They always win in America
This will be no different.
Zorro
(15,737 posts)I think there will be massive worker pay cuts across the board. There are already reports of mandatory 20-30% pay cuts in several companies.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Wouldn't it be nice if it were about TRUTH rather than perception?
DeminPennswoods
(15,273 posts)when Hoover was helpless in the face of The Depression, then FDR was elected. If Biden wins and can find his Frances Perkins and Harold Ickes, America could be in for a reordering of labor over capital.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)badseedboy
(174 posts)it's inevitable. It sure seems to be happening to many of us who form that mass, one at a time.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,446 posts)on many issues. I can't crystallize the details, but you know we will leave this crisis on a totally different trajectory.
DeminPennswoods
(15,273 posts)social safety net has become and how many people are living on the knife's edge between their ability to get by and not. We cannot go back to this "you're on your own" society path that we've been marching down since Reagan.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)inequality into a major national "pissed off" event. Just like this era, a lot of people were doing good before then so went along, but the Depression bit deep into the middle class. BAD mistake, cons!
And this is also finally hurting the upper middle class that's been doing just fine. Just as RW/conservative-lead corruption and greed then finally caused a big backlash that destroyed their power then, a lot suspect it's finally reached that point again. The point where even people who can't be smart and those who won't be responsible finally get mad enough to take a stick to those who brought their troubles on.
I think it's time again to act beyond fed up, in the way civilized people do. To speak out against what the Republican Party's become and to reject their lies when presented, politely and even sympathetically (shared troubles!) but with strong disapproval and rejection of the lies.
But blame the Republican leaders. Both the Tea Party and Trump were attempted rebellions against their wealth-serving leadership; even in the worst of them, that awareness or at least secret fear they're being screwed big time is still there under it all. And the best of them know it full well. That's powerfully dangerous for their party and not to be gotten in the way of.