Listen to what the man said... |
...and it's Corporate America.
If anything good can come out of a Trump Presidency, it's that average Americans might finally wake up and realize that Ronald Reagan's conclusion that government was not the solution, but the problem, is one big lie. The biggest problem in America has been, and continues to be, the primacy given to the vested interests of Corporate America at the expense of the rest of us.
And God knows Trump and the republican party are going to do their best to make even the densest of folks understand. Already the GOP is pushing a bill to limit Americans ability to file class-action lawsuits (virtually the only way ordinary people can combat corporate abuse--it's simply too expensive to take them on individually) against large corporations. And the Trump administration is already gutting regulations protecting us from Wall Street's incompetence and Corporate America's indifference on our having clean water to drink. These are little more than sops to the wealthy interests and a spit in the face to those of us who actually carry this country on our collective backs.
And one can be sure there's more to come.
Surprisingly, Democrats seem to be waking up to this fact, even if they are still half asleep. One of their tactics for attacking Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is to laser in on his support for Corporate America to let everyday folks know that the problem is not the government, but the all powerful entities that have bought so much of it.
It's high past time that Democrats not named Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (and some few others) were helping to "...put the jam jar on the lower shelf where the little man can reach it."
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
That bill to destroy class actions is truly awful. Just went to a conference on class actions for civil rights lawyers, and it is just as bad in that context. While they're certainly used against corporations, they're just as important to civil rights discrimination cases. Those are sometimes against corporations, but also state actions. It's about rich, white dudes not wanting the people to be able to fight back.
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