Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

I just today started a book on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma and how OxyContin / opioids have been responsible for about 400K deaths in this country.

Like the Koch Brother(s), they are world class philanthropists, which, I guess, is balm for their consciences.

You are correct that unions were taken over by mobsters but they also provided a path for millions of Americans into the middle class. I'd prefer cleaning up union management, which I think largely has been done, to getting rid of them to get rid of the criminal element. My great uncle and a partner started the restaurant workers union.

I suppose wherever there's a lot of money, there's crime of some sort. The 3 original tech 1%-ers, Gates, Zuckerberg, & Jobs all stole the ideas that propelled their companies to superstardom.

Yours are good observations about the way that campaigns for social justice and peace have been co-opted into supposedly anti-American endeavors.

I have a few favorite sayings and one is, "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" - Mencken