I can't finish the article. It's so depressing, I can't bear reading it. My grandparents revered FDR and his policies which were working towards making our country something special in the history of how society worked. Then in the 1970's, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo to his fellow wealth hoarders who were as unhappy as he was in the direction our country was heading; one where we had a strong and stable middle class with unions and laws to protect our rights. We have been on a downward spiral ever since and it has been the work of both Democrats (starting with Jimmy Carter and continuing with Bill Clinton and even Barack Obama) and Republicans. They have pushed the rotten ideas of Frederick Von Hayek and squashed the policies of FDR and the genius John Maynard Keynes. Anyone anywhere looking to the causes for our current frightening climate of the downgrading of democracy all over the world need look no further than the enormous gap that has opened up between the wealth hoarders and the rest of us. Stop the hand wringing and start working for and contributing to the few decent politicians who care more about our democracy and its citizens than their donors. It's time to change before it's too late.

I can't finish the article. It's so depressing, I can't bear reading it. My grandparents revered FDR and his policies which were working towards making our country something special in the history of how society worked. Then in the 1970's, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo to his fellow wealth hoarders who were as unhappy as he was in the direction our country was heading; one where we had a strong and stable middle class with unions and laws to protect our rights. We have been on a downward spiral ever since and it has been the work of both Democrats (starting with Jimmy Carter and continuing with Bill Clinton and even Barack Obama) and Republicans. They have pushed the rotten ideas of Frederick Von Hayek and squashed the policies of FDR and the genius John Maynard Keynes. Anyone anywhere looking to the causes for our current frightening climate of the downgrading of democracy all over the world need look no further than the enormous gap that has opened up between the wealth hoarders and the rest of us. Stop the hand wringing and start working for and contributing to the few decent politicians who care more about our democracy and its citizens than their donors. It's time to change before it's too late.

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