Posted by (+2061) 8 months ago
Here is an excellent article explaining the current anger and resentment of many hard-working Americans. The economic policy of the last 40 years has resulted in economic desperation not seen since the great depression. The failure of trickle-down economic policy has left most Americans extremely vulnerable to even the mildest of economic downturns.
https://www.theatlantic.c...om/613084/
“For too many of us, the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor—other people's lives, Roosevelt said, "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”
"Roosevelt was no Marxist. He did not believe in class war for class war’s sake. But he also did not believe in unilateral disarmament in the face of oligarchy."
https://www.theatlantic.c...om/613084/
“For too many of us, the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor—other people's lives, Roosevelt said, "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”
"Roosevelt was no Marxist. He did not believe in class war for class war’s sake. But he also did not believe in unilateral disarmament in the face of oligarchy."