It is because the country has voted against taxing businesses and large corporations and for insane levels of military spening, ie: Republicans, that the Democrats have been dragged so far to the right that they are at the national-level where Republicans were thirty years ago. The Republicans are so far right that they should be falling off the edge of the flat Earth they subscribe to.
It was PROGRESSIVE Democrats who gave us the benefits people are complaining about being eroded, such as social security, medicare, a 40-hour work week, collective bargaining right, pensions, sick leave and maternity leave, child labor laws, near universal basic education, public libraries, state parks, and more.
By buying into the right wing crap on Fox News and all the talking heads funded by billionaires and large corporations who don't want to pay their fair share, and voting for the anti-social candidates they have espoused that the Democrats have been forced to field ever more coropratist candidates instead of decent Progressives who would put the middle class and all that sustains them first.
The Republicans will take EVERYTHING THEY CAN from the poorest, and try to silence their voice in national politics, as they already have done in newspapers and television, all of which are now owned by six huge corporations.
If you want help when you are down, you won't find it from Republicans or Libertarians, who sneer down their noses that people who are poor chose the fate that befalls them, regardless of the cause. Maybe people should turn off the damn TV and go find out what these candidates actually stand for - and if it isn't them, then don't vote for them. Go take a look at the platform proposals of the Democratic party candidates instead of the labels fed as pablum by the talking heads, or check on various Green candidates that are being ignorred by the corporate media - and then ask yourself who is spewing hate and fear and who is actually proposing action that might allow us to build our way out of this crap.
Life was fairly decent before Reagan and his trickle-down voodoo economics. Are you tired of being trickled down on yet?
Go ahead, vote for more anti-tax and pro-war right-wing nuts. You can't pay for the benefits you're complaining about being whittled away without SOME taxes, and if what little tax money is collected is spent on wars in the middle east and cleaning up huge oil spills in the Gulf, there's nothing left in the treasury for your medical benefits.
Are you tired of being trickled down on yet?
You're a smart person. I don't blame you for being angry. But at least get angry at the people who are REALLY doing this to you: the stingy fear-mongering war profiteers.
All the best, if you work and vote for it,
Dan
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