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Warpy

(111,169 posts)
11. "Business as usual" and "pro middle class" don't sell like they used to
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:05 AM
Apr 2015

because business as usual is killing most of us financially and because of that, the middle class is now for all intents and purposes completely gone. We've been shoved down into the working class and we know it and business as usual is what did it to us.

That's why turnout was so abominably low in the last election, all the Democrats were running on the tried and true New Democrat mantras and only the churchy types were fired up enough to vote and they vote overwhelmingly Republican.

I'm quite honestly bracing myself for at least 4 years of some Republican lunatic in the White House in 2017 because the Democratic leadership is consistently failing to get the message and we have no way to tell them since they're so well insulated from us.

There will, of course, be another crash. That's the least it will take to get us some changes in leadership because there is nothing like a negative cash flow to cost people their jobs.

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