This country is basted in fox news and other shit and lives pay check to paycheck for the most part. Do you think there is going to ever be a mass movement when the populace spends most of their free time watching sports and dancing with the stars?
Movements are laughed at by the MSM and treated badly by the cops.

when the populace isn't spending most of their free time watching sports or dancing with the stars, because they will no longer be able to afford roofs over their heads or TV's to watch. We are not there yet,but that is where this is headed if we don't reverse course.

It took Hoovervilles, soup lines and rampant unemployment to wake up Americans in the 1930's and they also didn't have the saturating propaganda propaganda like we do now.

In the last year. My daughter said the same about where she lives. Rents have gone sky high and many can't afford them. Check out your local food banks. Lines are long and the churches and charity groups run out of boxes before they are done. People give more this time of year and there are food drives everywhere you go. Most of us understand the need is great and is going to get worse . Reading Howard Zinns People's History of America, opened my eyes. During the depression these groups could not meet the massive needs confronting them, and all shut down within two years of the beginning of the depression. This is why a social safety net was created in the first place, and the repigs and trump are trying to demolish it. They want to get rid of FS altogether. They just cut them, some by a lot, the last couple months. Are you ready to see your fellow Americans having bread riots and living in trumpvilles. I wonder if he will be proud to see his name on these erections? I found it interesting that in our history we have burnt and destroyed many a mansion. The 1% know how we feel about them. Why do you think Devoss and Zinke need so much protection.

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I'm a Depression historian ... the tax bill is straight out of 1929

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but now that everyone is online you have to unplug the internet instead.

Going to and from work listening to music and watching Netflix at home who really never consume any news at all.

Guaranteed.

I respect the concerns they raised; but broadly speaking, their choice was to forego the political process ("both sides are to blame&quot and create their own miniature ideal society. At the end of the day, they still have to live in the same country with the rest of us.

a major deprssion and/or world war to wake up 'Muricans. Now that they are likely to get their tax cuts, the oligarchy will dial it down for a while so that the frogs go back to not noticing the water temperature rising.

We are following the same path as the pre 1930's

democracy. started by some college professor who is dead, some researcher stubled on the game plan. need the name. buchanan i think. CAN YOU SAY RUSSIA?

I think you're referring to the book "Democracy In Chains" by history professor Nancy MacLean.

And yeah, the oligarchs don't like democracy. Over the last few decades they have been steadily eroding the right to vote and the right to be represented and have your voice heard in Washington (or at any level of government) if you are a non-wealthy citizen.


We already live in a de facto plutocracy, as the Senate vote last night on the tax scam showed.

Like most people, I failed "mind reading" in junior high, and know bags and bags of three letter abbreviations, but I'm betting this isn't about the Ontario Weather Service.

Oh What Shit?
Own Woolen Scarves?
Our Washington Stinks?

First rule of clear writing (and of good journalism, too ... per Chicago Manual of Style)

1. When writing about an entity or organization spell out the full name of the entity on the first reference with the acronym or initials beside it in parenthesis. Then in subsequent mentions, use the acronym or the initials. i.e. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and even ... Democratic National Committee (DNC), etc. etc.

After reading the post and all the comments so far, I'm going to guess OWS means Occupy Wall Street in this instance, but there's no real way to be sure, is there?

Internal jargon happens way too much on Democratic Underground (DU), in my humble opinion (IMHO.)

/end clear writing rant (ECWR)/

So...yeah...people are used to it being spoken about and who wants to write out the whole thing - especially on a mobile device!

They told people going in and out of Apple stores how much $ exactly Apple was cheating their community school by not paying taxes.

and appreciated them trying to do something about the harmful status quo. I see the problem as being that the rest of us didn't join them in trying to create change. We sat back in a wait-and-see posture. We could have helped spread the movement. Lastly, I like hippies. A lot.

And yes, we need a coast to coast movement. Young and old, of all colors and white, and straight and LGBT!