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Laura Larrecou's avatar

The best article I've read all year for concise and accurately reflecting the facts. The top of the food chain is the Supreme Court. People are pissed and starting to fight back.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Your assessment that strong workers' unions are essential to ameliorate income inequality is true. Strong unionized workers enable a secure middle class. The middle class income levels since the 1990s have eroded to the point that only very upper middle class persons can afford to buy houses now, for instance.

Economic anxiety, among the 98% non-millionaires in the US, leads to such extreme dissatisfaction; that it can enable authoritarian politicians to be regarded as necessary to "fix" the problem. We are in such a state now. The fpotus has, due to various factors - billionaire ruling plans with the Project 2025 agenda, theocratic SC decisions, right-wing media ascendancy - become the standard bearer for many dissatisfied people.

So ironically, instead of advocating for unionization to address economic ills, the misinformed, disinformed, public turns to an anti-union, billionaires backed, "populist" to solve economic disparities. It is a blatant oligarchial, authoritarian, grab for power. The only bulwark against such a takeover is a robust unionized economy. Along with regulatory agencies able to minimize unfettered, corporate greed actions against workers, consumers, and the environment.

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Max E's avatar

Well said

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Murray Smart's avatar

I call them the Supremely Corrupt 6 Court "justices". The WORST in American history!! And they need to have the heat applied to them from all directions and from every person and every group in America. This court needs to be fixed so this can never happen again. Sheldon Whitehouse is one who is leading this charge. He needs the support of all Americans who care about fixing these out of control 6!! Name them - John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett!! And the 6 need to have their reputations pounded into the dust so that they currently and will go into history with their reputations in shambles and stained for all time! John Roberts needs to be tarred and feathered as one of the worst Chief Justices of all time. He could have acted to fix this, but he chose not too and in fact is part of the problem that is this 6 corrupt justices - including him! Do NOT let them off the hook!! Keep on them!! For too long they have gotten to hide in the court and have not been forced to actually face the very people who's lives they have damaged..........

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Christopher Meesto Erato's avatar

Today’s SCOTUS is Corrupt! Abe knew what time it was on so many issues!

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Janet Suriano's avatar

No truer words have ever been spoken!!!

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Karen McPherson's avatar

This is really important. Very concise and accessible. I'll be sharing it broadly.

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Ann Bassetti's avatar

Excellent article! Succinct explanation, with supportive and easy-to-grasp data. Such a sad and distressing situation we are in. My question is, what can we do that would be truly effective toward turning this around? The Supreme Court seems largely untouchable. Big right-wing money keeps buying influence. I have donated to every news source and organization that do investigative journalism. (A deep bow to all who wear down their shoe leather uncovering bad deeds and report back to us!) What else?

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Susan Garrity Benton's avatar

Ann, once Trump has been inaugurated there’s

nothing we can do. We can tell our elected representatives & senators to block what

legislation they can, but we’re not going to make

any real progress until Dems are back in power.

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