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[–] femtogression 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
Most of that had to do with corporate manipulation. Families were "destroyed" when they wanted to dilute the labor pool and so women were told to be strong and get on out there, be independent.
That wasn't good enough and they still demanded labor rights so then came off-shoring and importing while everyone got laid off, stocks crashed, jobless recovery, trickle up economics, sold a perpetual war by saying go shopping.
Leftists or socialists had nothing to do with any of that. Nice try though. But you're right with the last few lines. Because now those same ones that caused all of the above have engaged the power starved radical useful idiots with a lot of lies and they, by nature of being a cult of sociopaths, are more than glad to stand on the backs of others both to keep them down and elevate themselves. But they'll never achieve the ranks of real power and influence. That doesn't mean they wont' be content acting as social police though. Calling them cry bullies is almost childish when in fact they are the social and thought police and should be honored as such.
[–] HAESisalie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Like I said: One has to be either brain dead or complicit to not see what the left and their useful idiots have done, and are doing. I thought you might be the former, then I saw your user name and realized it was the latter.
[–] femtogression ago
You give them too much credit in the grand scheme of things to see them as anything other than puppet useful idiots. But I guess it's required of a bipolar pendulum theory.