It doesn’t have to be this way

I heard that phrase briefly, far too briefly during the last election.

I suggest that should be the main platform for the Democratic Party for the midterms and beyond.

Thom Hartmann has pointed this out often and it was my experience too. My father had a middle class job. My mother didn’t work. Yet my father was able to buy & own a house. Every 4or 5 years he would buy a new car. His health care benefits from having a union job were excellent. NEVER had to worry about hospitals or any health care costs.. A two week vacation every year. I realize that I was fortunate, but this was the experience for a hell of a lot of people in the middle class. Now that middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate. Two people working full time cannot afford what on person used to be able to afford.

A huge percentage of our population has never experienced this and has no knowledge that this actually existed in our country.

This all began to disappear with the election of Reagan and the Supreme Court allowing more and more money into election.   Billionaires didn’t always control our government.

IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY should be # 1 on the Democratic platform. We can and should not ever go back, but we should move forward with the best of what we had helping to guide us.