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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:37 AM Feb 2016

voting for a conserva-dem . . .

I am wondering why any union member or any other person who is not in the upper 1% can vote for another conserva-dem.
I think most people have seen that graph that Ed Schultz calls the "vulture chart". It shows productivity since the 80s and also wages. The productivity has more than doubled. I think it's about 250%, meaning that 250% more wealth has been created by American workers. And yet the wages are the same. Which means all that extra wealth has gone to the upper 1% (or at least to others who did not do the work to create it).
Since the 80's we have had a number of Democratic presidents. They did not change that, did they? There were 8 years of Clinton and another 8 years of Obama.
They did not strengthen the unions. Unions continued to decline. Obama had promised to include unions in all trade negotiations. He didn't. He also promised card check, which would make it easier to start and grow unions. He did not. And the wages remain static.
I wonder how long it will take working people to realize they have been bamboozled. Conserva-dems slice and dice some nice progressive sounding words into their rhetoric salad, but once they get elected. . . . . they forget all about the working people and their wages. I guess it's too much fun playing world dominator or something.
When will people stop getting sucked in by reality TV storylines and start recognizing the conserva-dems and stop voting for them? T

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