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Americans are learning the history they didn't bother to learn in school. Americans always do it the hard way.

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It will be tough if the status quo Democratic leadership is still in power. They need to step aside and go home to count their money.

Robber barons don't exist in the USA.

Today we have algo barons.

We need a trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt. I'll bet Mamdani would take it on but sadly isn't eligible to run for Pres.

This the actual reason that Sanders, Reich, and the rest of Marcuse' "New Left" have broken coalition for the last 60 years. They HATE liberal democracy. They HATE progress. They want to burn it to the ground so you can rise from the ashes like a phoenix in your true proletariat identity.

And so it came to pass…

We won’t know what the future holds until after the midterms. If we can’t impeach and remove Trump and his administration I fear much worse things will happen, not just to us but the world.

Multimillion $ CEO salaries are not sustainable! Staff layoffs, product shrinkage, stockmarket insider trading, insurance manipulation, lucrative military contracts, & perpetual payment systems do not make a healthy economy.

In Russia, the oligarchs stole the common wealth, and then the dictator - Putin - took over, thank you very much.

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More Reich blather. If Americans open their eyes they can get a preview of the destructive nature of progressive policies. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Patriarchy directly threatens the common good. Any "progressive" politics that doesn't begin with dismantling white male supremacist patriarchy will change nothing.

I’m hopeful you are right but I fear we are too late. Mother Nature has other plans.

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The only thing I find frightening is how the media brainwashed enough people into believing they could one day become one of them. Or... perhaps they are, just in their own form (i.e. HOA, business owner, scammer, etc...)

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THE BLUE WAVE IS COMING!

The only difference is that the Gilded Age had top hats and steam engines; now we have Patagonia vests and algorithms that automate the inequality. Same script, faster hardware.

Too often, so-called progressives are socialists in mufti; socialism is ingrained in American consciousness as evil.

But the robber barons at least built the rail roads. These thieves are not making anything.

Me, too.

When you look at this image you can easily understand what Robert Reich is telling us. What happened to antitrust laws that prevented monopolies from taking over America and consolidating all the power in the hands of a few selfish egos?

THEY APPEAR NOT TO BE ALLOWING A COMMON GOOD ANY LONGER. THE REGIME WILL DENY ANY VOTES AGAINST THEM IN THIS ELECTION. THIS DEMOCRACY HAS FAILED. IT IS TOO LATE.

Worse than that. While Republicans worry about trans people in sports, Democrats worry about billionaires taking over, losing freedoms, etc. But historians are worried about WW3, Nazis, USA-Russian-China plans to carve up countries. The Nazi parallels are there and Trump is working Putin’s plan.

And HOLD CONGRESS criminally liable for representing DONORS over VOTERS !

Like America's Most Wanted Posters.

Yea, keyword being progressive. Not liberal sex policies as an excuse to loot taxpayer funds. Perhaps we can get back to capitalism and not corporate socialism. I'm afraid if you want new progressive politics you absolutely need new people and term limits. A complete overhaul of government.

And 1984

And a less racist, xenophobic one!!

We need a hefty dose of socialism, not just progressive policies. Capitalism only works for everyone when it is heavily regulated and balanced with socialism.

I'm building my own guillotine.

Dude, restructuring will happen

The problem is in a sane world the so called progressive stance on universal healthcare, food & housing security, excellent and safe schools, clean water and air should be a baseline for common human dignity and $trillion defense spending and tax cuts for the wealthy should be obscene & radical.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_...

Kapitalism is THE PROBLEM. It’s the most unfair and destructive economic system ever invented.

That took at least 50 years. Not sure the world could survive that long.

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What we need is to disband the Anti-American Fascist Party of Pedophiles (formerly known as the Republican party). And then we need to form NEW parties by splitting up the Democrats. We need four or five parties. The two-party system does not work.

It's not balanced. Pure socialism doesn't work. Pure capitalism doesn't work. You need to balance them together, as has been demonstrated by many countries around the world.

I don’t think you really want to know because I assume you do know. I can appreciate a rhetorical question. You would have to distinguish between if you mean Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy first to get the most accurate list. Happy to provide it. Then again, where has capitalism worked?

I would respectfully disagree about capitalism. It’s not the regulations that are the problem; the regulations simply try unsuccessfully to change something fundamentally toxic in its engine. The problem is it’s based entirely on the subordination of human needs to private profit.

Capitalism is the enemy

No!!!!! We’ve had that at least since Nixon. We don’t need it again, FFS. And if you’re wealthy or hoping to be, tough shit. The clean water and the rest will be worth it.

The oligarchy and “corporate power” is just capitalism, tho. IDK how you can ask a party to oppose those while also being pro-capitalist.

It’s too bad we don’t teach history in America so we can avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. Oh, wait. It’s the not paying attention that’s the problem.

True R.R.

They even brag about it: "move fast and break things". Their goal is to destroy everything that they cannot steal.

So... I fail to see any difference now.

Me too, I want to see an FDR moment!

Not in our lifetime. We may see some of the seeds of it, which we're somewhat seeing now, but this isn't going to slow down at this point.

Oligarchs are incompatible with good. We are reliving the Robber Baron era with more tools for the privileged class.

We have been experiencing the 2nd Gilded Age since at least 1981, when President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. And Trump has shifted into maximum overdrive warp speed. #GreedIsGood #SecondGildedAge #2ndGildedAge

We’re going to have to relearn the labor movement and civil rights too. It’s a vast national failure.

Let's hope

Seems like we have to go through this every 50- 100 Years!!!! 🤬 

Unless the crooks & lawbreakers are held accountable, the flaws in the Constitution are fixed, & Citizens United is overturned, everything that the Dems would have done to win, will been done for nothing.

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I’m hoping for the French or Bolsheviks to speak up!

HCR says similar youtu.be/IafWs2aeqpY?...

Many people have pointed out that he doesn't actually have any money at all. He has "future projections of wealth" based on his companies making profits (but they never do) and him continuing to get government grants (which seems unlikely given his inability to follow the law).

Sure I meant his net worth, true. But the fucker could liquidate. That’s what most of us are having to do, sell our shit to survive.

www.sfgate.com/business/art...

There was an interesting article about how when you have those kinds of fake money shares, you get mortgages with negative interest and other freebies that the rest of us don’t get.

You can’t fight for democracy first? Parties are not the priority. Saving the world from nuclear disaster and saving our democratic votes matters first. If we have learned nothing, have you not learned ideology first is destructive. Democracy above all else.

Capitalism is incompatible with the common good.

That's our opportunity and I hope we choose to stop him!

We built the federal super highway system using marginal tax to prevent too few people from seizing too much money & power. The marginal tax system served US far better than the current healthcare-is-a-luxury system & PACs buying our politicians.

Power should serve the people, not control them. A society is only as free as the voice its ordinary people are allowed to have

Just respond . Hard to get people off the coach to vote when they care more about The Price Is Right than they do their future.

It took two World Wars and a Great Depression to turn the ship partially around and realize the government serves the people and it must do more for the common good. Then it took only another 40 years or so for Reagan to bring back Trickle Down policies that have fucked us once again.

IMO we are. I hope we realize that it will be a lifetime commitment, and that unpleasant actions are necessary and justified.

I hope it will not end in violence... as no one is prepared for such an outcome

Didn't the GREAT DEPRESSION happen after this time period?

Bring back the inheritance taxes.

fingers crossed

Robber barons with surveillance tech, drones,satellite heat rays & zero empathy. We have a pressing climate crisis that wasn't part of that era. This is so much worse! We aren't voting our way out of this. The sooner we realize we're in a war between the people & the billionaires, the better.

good point!

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It will only work if we get up the guts to tax the shit out of those greedy fecal-full bastards.

- Democracy may be an ideal, but was never imbedded in the US Constitution - Founders mistrusted the common citizens - Because of profound differences between the States, the only hope of forming a stronger Union required a guarantee of individual State autonomy *Good book that discusses oligarchy:

Oligarchy or plutocracy, it’s happening now.

I was warning people about this when you were in office. (Not that it was the fault of you or Clinton) I saw the signs back then that tech was getting too powerful

History seems to dictate we will.

We had better hurry before we destroy our planet.

Should’ve asked when Trump thought America was great

Will it take another depression on the levels of the Great Depression?

IF the DSA cleans up some of it's rhetoric, I might be interested.

It's my hope too.

We are! And The GenZ’s and younger are on it! 💙☮️🦋 #SaveDemocracy

When will the run on the market/banks begin? I fear that with the corruption and the AI bubble burst looming --> public trust will be lost soon and a depression will hit.

Unless the riots happen

Just finishing the book "1929." Highly recommend it.

The cycle continues.

Interesting parallel. Civil war ends with African American emancipation. Reaction leads to segregation. Oligarchy rides backlash. International order breaks down. WWI. Fastforward. Civil rights fight. Desegration. Backlash. Techno-oligarchy rises. International order breaks down. Hybrid WWIII.

youtu.be/CoJmdzHTGls?

Bernie was absolutely correct on this.

really.

And how many politicians has he bought to do his bidding besides JD Vance ? Bought, paid for and now his and Trump's mouthpiece!

Yeah, a 'new progressive movement.' Because the last one gave us open borders, $9 eggs and guys in the girls' locker room. Hard pass, professor.

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Healthcare for everyone, free college, at least a rich tax of 65%. How do you think the highway and freeway systems were built. Minimum wage at least enough where you can only spend a week's wages on rent. In 87,a house was 90 grand, today, 300,000. Make people's lives better.

😂🤣😂🤣 Yeah RIGHT! We're doomed....

I'm ready for a Green New Deal! I hope that we still have a democracy at the end of this nightmare

So am I. We are way past gilded age inequality now. Change is coming. In one form or another

Look to the “rust belts” of America ( and other Nations) and one can see the effects of unbridled greed , disinterest in the common good and the rift between Capital and Labour invariably against the interests of the latter

Which depends on new progressive voters. These elections are as much a study in voters as who they choose to elect. We hopefully discover the USA doesn't want to be a dictatorship allied with Russia. It's a numbers game: how many MAGA, Christian Nationalists and racists will turn up for their idol.

They laughed at it.

We are, but the voting machines are getting hacked, not to mention other illegal activities.

It also marked the rise of the trade union movement when workers organised to throw off the oppressors. 8 hours work 8 hours recreation 8 hours sleep

Hi Bob! I wish I could share your optimism. I afraid you can’t vote yourself out of this tyranny.

I’m hopeful the new progressive movement becomes an era