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When We Get Through This, Can WE Leverage it to an "Awakening"? (Original Post) Skraxx Mar 2020 OP
Depends what Corporate America wants as "the new normal" Funtatlaguy Mar 2020 #1
This situation will create a big society "reset" Zorro Apr 2020 #10
K&R SheltieLover Mar 2020 #2
We are at the same cross-roads as DeminPennswoods Mar 2020 #3
Yup Skraxx Mar 2020 #4
THIS !!! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #7
I think badseedboy Mar 2020 #5
There is going to be a wholesale restructuring of our economy, our sociology, and our viewpoint OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2020 #6
This has been an eye-opener about just how frayed the DeminPennswoods Apr 2020 #8
The Great Depression turned decades of massive income and justice Hortensis Apr 2020 #9
Well said. nt crickets Apr 2020 #11

Funtatlaguy

(10,870 posts)
1. Depends what Corporate America wants as "the new normal"
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 06:10 PM
Mar 2020

They always win in America
This will be no different.

Zorro

(15,737 posts)
10. This situation will create a big society "reset"
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:52 AM
Apr 2020

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.

DeminPennswoods

(15,273 posts)
3. We are at the same cross-roads as
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 06:17 PM
Mar 2020

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.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,446 posts)
6. There is going to be a wholesale restructuring of our economy, our sociology, and our viewpoint
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 06:43 PM
Mar 2020

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)
8. This has been an eye-opener about just how frayed the
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:17 AM
Apr 2020

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)
9. The Great Depression turned decades of massive income and justice
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:46 AM
Apr 2020

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.

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