It is always remarkable to me how so many on the left have internalized the Republican propaganda that government is bad. I'd love to see Democrats truly celebrate the specific ways that government makes our lives better, especially at the local level.
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JennyIL (Gail & Lennie’s human)
My Democratic Rep starts every sentence about government with a statement about the need for it to be more effective and efficient. Never talks about the great things federal agencies do for us.
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No talk of greatness but when our two parties are primarily interested in the comfort of the wealthy over all other concerns of the citizenry....
What good are federal labor laws if corporations are allowed to ignore them, so on and so forth.
That program got cut during the Bush Jr years and wasn't reinstated under Obama, leaving us with a far more predatory mortgage.