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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe've had a serious trifecta this year...
The gutting of the Civil Rights Act, The Gutting of Reproductive Health Rights, and now the tacit approval of shooting down innocent kids by racist gun-toting vigilantes.
I'm sorry, but it looks like to me that America is losing itself big time.
If you want to add the Surveillance State, on going war, crooked banks, big oil and gas ownership of the country and the oligarchs owning our very souls, you're free to join in.
Good night, everybody.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)the HUGE wealth inequality
bvar22
(39,909 posts)the Wealth Gap and Wage Inequality is getting WORSE, not better:
Daily CEO Pay Now Exceeds the Average Worker's Annual Salary
http://thecontributor.com/daily-ceo-pay-now-exceeds-us-workers-annual-salary
76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.html
New Rule (Passed by Congress and signed by President Obama) signals Kiss of Death for Pensions
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100694955
Wealthy win lion's share of major tax breaks
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/05/29/wealthy-win-lion-share-major-tax-breaks/Ua0UyYle21EUXub7g1suCI/story.html
Half of America is in poverty, and its creeping toward 75%
http://www.alternet.org/economy/real-numbers-half-america-poverty-and-its-creeping-toward-75-0
Wealth gap widens as labor's share of income falls
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/wealth-gap-widens-labors-share-income-falls-1B6097385
As the Economy Recovers, the Wealth Gap Widens
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2013/03/11/as-the-economy-recovers-the-wealth-gap-widens
Top One Percent Captured 121 Percent Of All Income Gains
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/top-one-percent-income-gains_n_2670455.html
Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record Low
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/?mobile=nc
These things ^ do NOT happen by accident.
They take careful planning, preparation, marketing, buying the right politicians, message control, and the marginalization of any opposition.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)and now I don't.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)It's so wrong in so many ways.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)I'm so sorry that we live in a country like this.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)We got the KKKoch Bros. And all these Stand Your Ground laws in all these states. The assault on voting rights. Women's reproductive rights. Hispanic Americans. LGBT. The list goes on and on...
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)will never put America together again.
The empire is crumbling.
Good night, Mr.Scorpio
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it just took a while for the corpse to start stinking.
MH1
(17,600 posts)Others may not agree. But I worry more about assholes with guns shooting people in the street for no good reason, then someone listening in on my phone calls or reading my email. (I'm a boring person. And I just don't think the stuff I write on DU is enough to get the gubmint in my grill.)
I also worry more about women suffering with reproductive slavery than the NSA.
And I worry about things getting a lot worse as the corrupt American Taliban tightens its grip on the voting process.
But yeah, if we could peel away those things, then I'd probably be yelling about the NSA too.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)hard thing in this life that I had to take with a Grain of salt. but this is the Hardest shit I have ever had to Stomach. This has been a hell of a year, you are right Mr. Scorpio. Justice for my sons is something I can never hope for in America. The Heart of every mother of children of color knows what they are saying to us. Yousef Hawkins, Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, any child of color is not safe in America. It doesn't matter if it is the 1950's or February 26, 2012.