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No doubt that FDR's policies were instrumental in changing the economic environment in this country but it only took five years after his death to stop labor unions in their tracks with the Taft-Hartley Act that remains unchallenged by Democrats until today, enact a national healthcare policy that put the for-profit private insurance companies in full control of our national healthcare yet another policy that still remains unchallenged though the Democrats have renamed it the ACA, and committing us to a very expensive forty year long Cold War against Russia who was seen by the oligarchs as an imminent threat to total unregulated Capitalist control of our economy ! No doubt that Reagan was instrumental in prolonging the destruction of our democratic values but, far from being a major instigator, he was just carrying out the next logic step to further secure the dominance of our wealthy oligarchic overlords !
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Deet the Rightists {a limerick}
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Hooraw for the chemical Deet.
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‘gainst skins which otherwise they’d eat.
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This is one area where I disagree with you. Calls for reviving employer sanctions cut across building the working-class internationalism -- "An injury to Juan is an injury to Al" -- that is needed in response to corporate globalism. Let's instead call "For a world without borders!" and operationalize that with a demand for lifting all restrictions on legal immigration, along with retroactive amnesty. If that were done, sanctions would be irrelevant because employers could no longer use the fear of deportation to intimidate foreign-born workers.
Agree with wonderland on this one, she is dead on. I'm all for Bernie. Hillary is just another Bankster stooge and will say anything to get elected and like Obushama will dutifully do what her Bankster masters tell her to do. Though they do give her the freedom to give some crumbs to the 99%, stuff they could care less about.
Check out this documentary, Meet the Clintons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8BiEnZel4Q
I like how Bill Clinton is all smiles & chuckles walking to some guys funeral, but as soon he sees a camera filming him, he looks down and start wiping tears out of his eyes.
I also like how Hillary denied attending the 2006 Bilderberg meeting, lying through her teeth, even pretended she didn't know what that was.
And when asked what her favorite book to read was, she replied "the bible". Anyone who believes that is anything but just a sleazy attempt to win Christian voters is substantially brain dead.
Aliceinwonderland: I want to add that I'm very confident Bernie won't fool us like Obama has.....Bernie will get in the White House and fight for us....he'll relentlessly speak truth to power, and fight every moment for the 99%! There won't be any free trade swindles under his watch.
As Thom has already pointed out many times, the corpse media won't give Bernie the time of day. Doesn't matter..... I believe his economic message of truth is too powerful to be silenced, and the billionaires weapon of mass deception/distraction will ultimately prove useless.
The citizens are starving for a Statesman that doesn't speak with a forked tongue. I'm feeling the Bern!...Tees and bumper stickers on the way..... as well as spreading the good word as much as possible....I really don't think he can be stopped now.
Excellent comments, guys! Thumbs-up to Thom as well.
Bernie's the only candidate who, if elected, will fight for us. I long for the day when we can get representation for our hard-earned tax dollars once again. Presently that money is being flushed down the commode. Oligarchy and corporate welfare is all we have to show for it.
The turnout for Bernie's appearances has been mighty impressive thus far. I'm grateful to have reason to hope, for the first time in decades. Go Bernie!
Bernie's Ideas are not bad ideas. They are all very good ideas. I know conservatives will ask "Who's going to pay for making these ideas a reality?". Of course, we the taxpayers will. Those that earn more will pay more and those that earn less will pay less. Bernie has that part figured out. Many conservatives may claim to be good Christians but when it comes to helping the sick, hungry, and poor, they not only do nothing to help, but do more to hurt the sick, hungry , and poor. Jesus would be disgusted with todays conservatives. Bernie's more of what a Christian should be like than they are and he's Jewish!
Bernie can't accomplish any of his goals unless he has the help of like minded government officials. Bernie needs to add to his message that the people need to get out and vote a straight democratic ticket in all elections at the national, state, and local levels no matter how small that election is to get out from under conservative republican oppression. Seriously, this message needs to get out. I'm not sure that most people understand that an elected official with good ideas can do nothing unless a majority of like minded legislators are also elected that support those ideas.
Get lost somewhere in Oz, bimbo?
We just know ol' jeb, dumbya, and the old man, george herbert hoover, would be choking on that !!!
This isn’t some radical socialist idea, either. It’s what guided American society from the 1930s until the 1980s. It’s what works. And as President, Bernie Sanders would make it our number one priority once again.
Thom,
Agreed. In fact, the Supreme Court FDR was saddled with was just like the one President Sanders would have to deal with.
I would CERTAINLY be in favor of President Sanders PACKING THE PRESENT WORTHLESS, OLIGARCHY SUPPORTING, CORRUPT Supreme Court.
With our vast increase in popuation in the last century, it would be a reasonable argument to claim we needed, for example, 31 Supreme Court justices, not nine.
Of course the crooks running our fossil fuel fascist government would scream bloody murder. SO WHAT? The argument is sound. And we should use it before THEY do.
Nevertheless, the GOP DID have the power for two decades previous because of the horrendously racist, pro-oligarchy, pro-child labor, anti-union Supreme Court. That was the period of Justice Holmes, the Great Dissenter, who fought tooth and nail against the Empathy Deficit Disorder of his fellow Supreme Court Justices.
Go Bernie I sure hope so
Paying Union dues is like paying Home owners association dues.
When you choose to move somewhere that has association dues, you are obligated to pay them. You reap the benefits of the association simply by living in the area covered by their rules and improvements, therefore you need to pay. The same is true for Unions. This is true even if the association involves itself politically to protect it's interests.
Thom,
Outstanding article.
As a point of correction, the GOP did not held the reigns of politcal power for 2 decades when FDR was inaugarated. Wooodrow Wilson was president from 1913 - 1921. The House was also Democratic during Wilson's presidency.
Brilliant response Dorothy, because you know nothing about a subject, you feel you must bully those that do. There comes a time when you need to sit down, shut up and learn. Now is that time.
I was in Madison last night and so impressed by everything Bernie and John Nichols said. I am especially excited that he considers this a movement and mentioned reaching out across party lines. He is honest about needing a good congress to be effective. A friend of mine has created a website focused on getting good people elected to Congress. He has laid out a detailed plan and listed the tasks that need to be done. Now all we need to do is attract volunteers. I gave information about this to Bernie's staffers and hope the get it to him. Please check out www.TakingBackOurHouse.org and if you like what you see tell Bernie about it.
Arlys Mills
Bernie supporter
member of www.Represent.us and TakingBackOurHouse
Listening to your show re: Bernie in Wisconsin. There are many websites including the WaPo carrying this story online. Plus, the New Yorker, (satirist/comedian) Andy Borowitz)posted on Facebook along w ith Bernie's campaign. His speech is also available on You Tube, I believe - haven't visited that yet.
Thanks for all you do - I wish the entire country had access to your program. Actually, they do if they can go online. We moved from Jax where I had to listen on PC to Chicago station. Now we're in Ithaca NY, home of liberalism and several progressive radio stations.
Judy B.
Few U.S. Citizens remember that members of the Senate were once political appointees not elected by the general population and they were not limited to a specific term in office. Isn't it time to come to grips with essentially the same problems that eventually led to the call for periodic public elections of Senators. A change that would eliminate life time terms and partisan manipulation of existing legislation and allow the population to select those individuals that are given the sole unquestionable power to overturn laws and decisions that were often previously demanded by a majority of citizens who sought democratic solutions through their elected members of Congress ? A change that would finally allow all Americans to claim that their government is a truely representative body !
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump should have already been dropped by the media as possible Presidential candidates. The media is well aware that Bernie has never sought a large audience to tell us what we wish to hear, making his message and his Office ineffective. The Donald's outrageous opening Presidential campaign statements reveal his lapse of lucidity, which immediately disqualified him as a candidate. Infotainment media is a curse that must be removed in the interest of better society. Shame on us for having allowed this damaging industry to have survived for so long!
Thom, Horace is a perffect example of why this panel "Rumble" segment does NOT work.
At 19 mins in, he interrupts you before you have completed your argument and he consistently does this. You rarely get a chance to complete your argument . The segment ends up becoming total cocophony until Horace overspeaks you and everyone else and dominates the conversation. The whole segment becomes little more than a fight for talking time in which whoever can yeall the loudest and interupt the most wins. ... Guess who will ALWAYS win those battles?
My suggestion is either a insist that one person speak at a time and limit them to a specific amount of time like a political debate is done or b) do away with these "Rumble" style panel cocophonies completely.
This is a nice start (though I believe ALL colleges are rip-offs and should be a free part of our social system w/o need to take useless classes to "earn" a degree), but we are also PATIENTS and not "customers" in "hospitals" as well.
I'd like someone to look into how robbed we are by hospitals - especially as they are all now merging. Another Koch brother "donation" tactic? We talk a lot about "Big Pharma" ripping US off, but look at the bill when you or someone you know get's hospitalized. We AND our Medicare/Medicaid taxpayer dollars are being ripped off. How in the world can they justify these ridiculous costs???