Robert Reich: The moral crises of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion...

[BrotherIvan]

43. Well sometimes not being able to have an abortion can make a woman homeless

Both of those rights are civil rights and are very important. That is why TPTB and the moneyed classes chose them as issues. A) They weren't making money on them and B) it directly effects less powerful people in our society. They always build on old hatreds because that's easier. The abortion debate was decided until St. Ronnie brought the fundnuts to the table and that was the price. They want us all so tired out from fighting, we don't even notice the money: the banks, the corporations, and the MIC.

But the fact that everyone is getting poorer is also making them less and less powerful. If you are constantly in terror of losing your job or health insurance (still tied to your employment) so your kids will starve or your spouse will die, you will do anything, accept anything. If you're working three jobs you don't have time to protest. And you don't have money to outspend billionaires, so your government is no longer representative. I just don't understand how that is not a social issue.