is a backlash to the 1960s, second-wave feminism, and the growth of what they see as the nanny state.

to push back. Honestly seems like everything has been shifting to the right, going back on civil rights and workers rights in general since I was born. It is past time for things to begin shifting the other way.

And now all you have to do is Pic=Romney

Feel Good?

Think. Choose. Vote.

mostly because the adults I knew were surprised an actor was elected. Did read this really cool book once though that talks about social and economic cycles through history called the Fourth Turning. Maybe that could help?

Then when G.W. Bush was given the job of president. I think we saw how that has worked out for us. I get the impression that republicans think they are entitled to the white house no matter what. The with the religious right and the tea party hijacking the republican party and stopping cooperation.

I see Bill Clinton.. who passed the NEOCON Nafta.. and sent our jobs to China.

I see Bill Clinton who passed Neocon Media De-regulation in 1996 and allowed FOX NEWS to take over our media...

No, I am not anti-Bill CLinton... I just want to point out .. that American workers were Job-jacked.. and their jobs sent to China... thanks to Ronnie Reagan and Bill Clinton...

There were times when there was the big "issue of our day." Now, nothing gets done. Bills that are passed are few and far between, and they are useless to the common person. Silly bridge namings, etc.

And, yes, it started going horribly downhill with Reagan, but got tremendously worse during the Clinton years. During that time with Newt Gingrich as the Republican leader, nothing got accomplished, because each day, new monkey shit got thrown in the fan. There's no longer an issue of our day - EVERYTHING is an issue, because Republicans MAKE new issues daily, and none of them get addressed.

Hell, we're all so tired of just trying to become knowledgeable about today's issues, we're running ourselves ragged and incapable of offering the support to our DEMs before there's another big blow up of monkey shit hitting the fan on a DIFFERENT subject.

Congress jumps from health care to gay issues to farm bills to Iran to Iraq to Afghanistan, every single day.

We're perpetually in CRISIS mode. With a new crisis every damned day.

But the Tafft Hartley act of 1947 started the war against labor. No, did not start with PATCO. IT allowed for the rise of Right to Work States and the slow, in the beginning, almost imperceptible, war against Unions. This was the first reaction to The New Deal from Republicans that was successful, They have been trying to get rid of this since 1935.

The 1950s also saw the begging of the civil rights movement that finally exploded with the deployment of the 101 to a certain HS (That Clinton attended a few years later) and the rise of the right wing in the south. Until the passage of the 1965 civil rights act, the South was Democrat, and conservative... these days it is Republican and Conservative. The only thing that changed was party allegiance. Thurmond was a Democrat until he became a Republican by the way.

1965 can be seen, and has been seen, as the natural end, in some ways, of the Civil War.

1964 (which we may see a repeat off this year) was also a seminal year for the American right. which was emerging from the 1950s in establishing the beginnings of an intellectual basis for it. Goldwater got trounced, seriously trounced. SO the Republicans not only started their designs on media and county seats, but also organized and kicked the crazy uncle out... at the time the John Birch Society, also formed by the Koch family, in that case dad.

Watergate got the Republicans desperate to impeach a President, why you got partly the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal, and Reagan was the beginning of a Conservative revolution that has crested. I forgot, dummy me, the PATCO strike was the true accelerant to the war on labor, and then you have Globalization and the lowering of our standards of life for the sake of everybody else.

This is pretty much the Cliff's Notes of this.

Will correct

profits over people not only became a cancer to our society, it is shredding the very fabric of our democracy. Hoarding cash & firing people became signs of power, while having compassion became passe. It has eroded our unity as well. When Reagan said "Govt is the problem" it undermined democracy & waged a war on our own Govt., the very reason for the Constitution. Since then the problems we face is one where it is believed the Govt can no longer be used as a force for good, hence no more Hoover Dams or any other major Govt achievements, leaving us feeling distant, oppressed, & un-unified. We have become a slave to the almighty private sector who we are told shall be the only ones to be allowed to save us. Until then you will be starved bare & wait in their mercy or die. We can end unemployment right now with the Federal Govt, but Govt has become a dirty word. Even those on assistance are now referred to as parasites. Humanity has become devoid of empathy.

For what's happened since, see Rome, Britain, and other empires and the histories of their descent into has-been.

All these forces caused our economy to become more financial services based and less manufacturing based. More Imperial, less democratic.

All this was rationalized by a War on Communism, and, when the USSR fell, a War on Terror.