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The TPP, banking deregulation, etc are direct attacks on social and human rights issues
Anyone that doesn't see:
The militarization of the police
The dismantling of Dodd-Frank
The Citizen United and McCutcheon decision
The Trans Pacific Partnership
The influx of laws and SCOTUS decisions that put religion into law
Are directly related to, and the reason for:
The incarceration rate and length of time incarcerated of people of color
The impunity of police and prosecutors when beating and/or killing people of color, the poor and mentally ill
The systematic, constant suppression of voters of color, women and poor
The low wages and dismantling of unions
The laws controlling women, to the extent that termination of a pregnancy, by nature or design, can end in 41 years in prison
The laws against and the harassment of the LGBT community, especially transgender people
The wage gap between men and women, between white people and people of color, and between C class and lower level employees
And so many other horrendous social inequities
Does not understand what is going on.
There is nothing more important happening in our country than the corpocracy/oligarchy we have become. It is how they control us. It is part of the plan to rule us with iron fist.
To say that those of us that want change in economics are racist, misogynists, bigots, are not paying attention to what is happening.
If we do not elect someone that is fighting for the 99%, we will have no chance to recover.
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The TPP, banking deregulation, etc are direct attacks on social and human rights issues (Original Post)
marym625
Apr 2015
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)1. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!
Way to go, marym625!
marym625
(17,997 posts)2. Thank you
I don't think it will resonate with anyone that doesn't already see it but I had to say it
Thanks again
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)3. Absolutely
Don't want some peons asserting their 'rights' (which little nobodies don't deserve to begin with or they'd have money).
That gets in the way of the good deserving job-creators making all that they are fully entitled to.
marym625
(17,997 posts)4. It's a greed I honestly didn't think was possible
aspirant
(3,533 posts)5. It's time that
human people have equal rights with corporate people. Aren't we being left behind?
marym625
(17,997 posts)6. wouldn't that be nice!
Yes, it sure is. Funny how corporate people never have to go to jail, isn't it?