1 Comment
User's avatar
⭠ Return to thread
steve reed's avatar

Reich wrote something quite important "But something far more basic is going on here. As I travel around the country, I hear from average working people an anger and bitterness I haven't heard for decades".

And one outlet for these feelings is through union acitivity we're seeing

But TFG and the rightwing has been able to channel this anger against anything that restricts their power.

Their narrative against the "deep state", aka the Federal government , continues. Listen to some of this Sen Hawley questioning of Energy Sec Granholm and read the comments on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LetXp2DJhiA

He is whipping up anger against Federal employees and the Feds generally. Some of the public is angry that civil servants have been able to still have a middle class life, and even a pension. Their anger is being misdirected away from wealthy elites who have made their own lives worse and denied them pensions in many cases. I think the Dems have to do a better job in directing the public's economic injustice anger, and why a Dem President is someone on their side.

BTW, if Hawley turns your stomach he has a good challenger in Lucas Kunce who is a HUGH antitrust advocate. https://lucaskunce.com/meet-lucas-kunce/

Hawley was financially backed by the Missouri asbestos king Humphreys (who has also bought many House and Senate seats in the Missouri legislature) to get him elected to MO attorney general, and then into the Senate. Humphreys now regrets he put Hawley in the Senate.

If our Democratic candidates in Missouri could get even crumbs from some of the well-heeled democrats on the east and west coasts, not to mention national orgs, we would immediately stop the Republican supermajority in Missouri which would help nationally by beating back some of the extremism. https://bluemissouri.org/ We only need 4 seats to flip the Missouri House and Colin Lovett lost the 100th house district by only 1%. Hint. https://votelovett.com/about/

Expand full comment