Good one. To link - Theocracy-minded Mike Johnson is anti-democracy, it follows he is also anti-IRS. [...] Think income inequality, an extortionate health-care system, and rural decay. Think, too, about the senses many people have that the sources of power—both public and private—are far away and unresponsive, and that when something goes wrong, they’re on their own. Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has argued that this anger breeds a “politics of resentment .. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22879533.html .” P - Democracy’s ideal is built on a foundation of accountability. In the past, many, if not most, of the decisions that mattered to our lives were taken by people and businesses that felt close to us. That’s not the case anymore. Now all roads seem to lead to bad hold music. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173167393
"Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries. Today, it is the second most unequal, after the US."
* Mouths Full of Blood: Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism "The GOP Is Just Obnoxious [...] Right-wing extremists have escalated their use of death threats against those who either oppose or criticize Trump, with a special bile reserved for threatening immigrants and Black people. The targets of the death threats include politicians, health workers, local election workers, journalists, teachers and members of the justice system engaged in holding Trump accountable for his crimes. In a culture that barely tolerates dissent and increasingly confuses the truth with falsehoods, it’s not surprising that Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago who studies political violence, found .. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/nyregion/right-wing-rhetoric-threats-violence.html .. that “between 15 million and 20 million American adults believe that violence would be justified to return Mr. Trump to office.”
* The Transformation at the Heart of Biden’s Middle-Out Economic Agenda [...] [Insert: [...] ..rooster, wrong. Trump lags behind his predecessors on economic growth [...] The Early Economic Records of Presidents from Kennedy to Trump President GDP Business Investment Investment in Equipment Kennedy 7.0% 8.3% 14.2% Johnson 6.3% 10.7% 11.9% Nixon 0.0% -1.6% -0.3% Carter 2.7% 8.2% 12.2% Reagan -2.1% 3.0% -3.0% Bush-1 2.6% 0.5% -0.2% Clinton 3.5% 7.7% 13.5% Bush-2 1.1% -4.7% -6.1% Obama 2.2% 1.5% 14.7% Trump 2.6% 5.9% 9.0% ,, with others .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142497306 .. with much more .. Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer "It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam" https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169495732] Republicans have excelled at consistently advancing an overall narrative about how the economy grows and how jobs are created. And they have been rewarded by the public, who score the party as better stewards of the economy. The public believes Republicans are better at running the economy even though their trickle-down claims that tax cuts for the rich create growth, that raising wages kills jobs, and that any form of regulation on large corporations destroys productivity have been repeatedly disproven. In fact, the historical record shows that the Republican policy agenda did nothing but enrich their big donors and increase budget deficits. P - By contrast, Democrats have promoted a wide range of popular policies but provided no clear and consistent counternarrative of how those policies grow the economy and create prosperity. Too often, Democrats have even echoed the Republican trickle-down narrative or merely talked about fairness, which sends the message that there is a trade-off between growth and fairness. No wonder most people think Democrats don’t understand the economy.
"So, what do people do feeling this squeeze?,.. vote far right?,.. say "fuck this mess": "
No. This election particularly people must not fall into the trap. This election, particularly, people should act to lower the chance of a could be fascist government, headed by a wannabe antidemocratic strongman, being elected. This election particularly people should vote Democrat.