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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:16 AM Dec 2015

Welcome to 1890:

From Robert Reich, 11 hours ago on his Facebook page

"Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,
but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street."
--- Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)

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Welcome to 1890: (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 OP

She's a woman, so surely she would vote for Hillary today, no? 99th_Monkey Dec 2015 #1

Why don't you re-animate her corpse and ask her? maxsolomon Dec 2015 #8

I wasn't sure I saw Mary Elizabeth's point COLGATE4 Dec 2015 #2

If one knows about the great Recessions of the 1800's, her point is well taken dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #5

She was spot on then and if she were alive now she'd still be right davidpdx Dec 2015 #3

k&r its time for our generation to do what that generation did AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #4

Or the 1930. The modern GOP is a recreation of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. n/t pampango Dec 2015 #6

Amity Schales wrote a good bio of Coolidge..... dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #7

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

1. She's a woman, so surely she would vote for Hillary today, no?

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:25 AM

Dec 2015

In a pig's eye. She'd be a flaming-throwing Bernista, through and through.

maxsolomon

(33,432 posts)

8. Why don't you re-animate her corpse and ask her?

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:29 PM

Dec 2015

so tired of GD Primary zingers. let's start voting already.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. I wasn't sure I saw Mary Elizabeth's point

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:37 AM

Dec 2015

until I looked at her photo. Love that 'do'.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. If one knows about the great Recessions of the 1800's, her point is well taken

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:04 AM

Dec 2015

and of course what she was speaking of was another cycle of power and greed which led to the 1930's Depression..

in short, nothing changes.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

3. She was spot on then and if she were alive now she'd still be right

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:19 AM

Dec 2015

It was Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt in the early to mid 1900's that helped bring about change to help the poor and middle class and make businesses abide by the rules.

That is what we need now.