Not Your Sweetie

TailWgnDog
Mon Nov-22-04 05:46 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1381141#1381156
Response to Original message
6. The rightwing political element in this country has . . .
an agenda. Much of it turns around legalities. Their agenda is to turn back the legal clock of time to Lochner, (1905).
This was a time before President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Big Deal" expansion of the federal government that gave our congress great power to over-ride state laws.
So in effect, the rightwingnuts want to erase about 100 years of congressional and U.S. Supreme Court laws. Seriously. It would call back the time when corporations were untouchable, ran rampant over the country and allowed what at that time was called "the gilded age" and "baron robbers."
Envision the movie "Titanic" and the split between the classes of the ship's passengers being only two: upper class and "steerage" of the low class. No middle class. None. That's when corporations had no boundaries, no laws to regulate them, and when they trammeled over the (no) rights of individuals.
This is the GWBush agenda. And GWBush has *snowed* and mislead and lied to people, pandering to their religious fears in attempts to pull together a coalition of voters in order to achieve his agenda.
Which is why the more educated people across the nation did NOT vote for GWBush. And which is why GWBush and Company belittled educated ppl, etc., etc., etc.
Simple, really."

To which I added that this agenda makes the "party of the middle class" obsolete. Who'll represent the majority?
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