Yes Susanna, actually the oligarchs attacks began in 1933 as soon as FDR was inaugurated. They attacked him as being a "traitor to his class". Which he was.
With wealth seems to come insatiable greed. And FDR, like the Kennedy's came from wealthy families. And like Franklin Roosevelt, Jack and Bobby Kennedy came from wealth and yet all th…
Yes Susanna, actually the oligarchs attacks began in 1933 as soon as FDR was inaugurated. They attacked him as being a "traitor to his class". Which he was.
With wealth seems to come insatiable greed. And FDR, like the Kennedy's came from wealthy families. And like Franklin Roosevelt, Jack and Bobby Kennedy came from wealth and yet all three could see that the nation did well when the majority of people Working, Middle, and Wealthy all did well, That doesn't imply there was no distribution of wealth, there was. It just wasn't obscene. Working, middle and wealthy all had decent housing, sufficient food and clothing and good health care for the time.
Things started to dismantle with Reagan - although the plans for the redistribution of wealth to the top echelon started i the early70's.
Fay, they began long before that. Take a look at the so-called "robber barons" of the late 19th century, and even the industrialists who seem to have developed a conscience *after* they made their millions, like Andrew Carnegie. Check out the violent, ongoing efforts to suppress working people's attempts to organize. This is what the anti-trusters and Progressives of the early 20th century were reacting to -- and where the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) came from. Go back further than that: on one level, the Civil War pitted an oligarchy -- rich Southern whites -- against the more democratic North.
You're right, Susanna. We could go as far back as the early written human history. We have always had, mostly men, who forced others into abject slavery, I was thinking of 'modern' America in the previous reply
Yes Susanna, actually the oligarchs attacks began in 1933 as soon as FDR was inaugurated. They attacked him as being a "traitor to his class". Which he was.
With wealth seems to come insatiable greed. And FDR, like the Kennedy's came from wealthy families. And like Franklin Roosevelt, Jack and Bobby Kennedy came from wealth and yet all three could see that the nation did well when the majority of people Working, Middle, and Wealthy all did well, That doesn't imply there was no distribution of wealth, there was. It just wasn't obscene. Working, middle and wealthy all had decent housing, sufficient food and clothing and good health care for the time.
Things started to dismantle with Reagan - although the plans for the redistribution of wealth to the top echelon started i the early70's.
Fay, they began long before that. Take a look at the so-called "robber barons" of the late 19th century, and even the industrialists who seem to have developed a conscience *after* they made their millions, like Andrew Carnegie. Check out the violent, ongoing efforts to suppress working people's attempts to organize. This is what the anti-trusters and Progressives of the early 20th century were reacting to -- and where the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) came from. Go back further than that: on one level, the Civil War pitted an oligarchy -- rich Southern whites -- against the more democratic North.
You're right, Susanna. We could go as far back as the early written human history. We have always had, mostly men, who forced others into abject slavery, I was thinking of 'modern' America in the previous reply