Re: An exclusive interview with Marianne Williamson (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

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 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 07:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > I actually agree with her
 > 
 > "During the 1970s, we had a thriving middle class in this country. 
 > We had a thriving middle class in which the average worker had decent 
 > benefits. The average worker could afford a home. The average worker 
 > could afford a house. The average worker could afford a car. The 
 > average worker could afford a yearly vacation and to send their kids 
 > to college. It’s not an accident that that’s not the way things are 
 > now. So what you’re going to say to that average worker … What? 
 > You’re not even going to raise the minimum wage? Even when they talk 
 > about raising the minimum wage, it’s still not talking about raising 
 > it to a level that’s actually a livable wage in many states in this 
 > country.
 > 
 > We have got to face this. Then the elite establishment Democrats say 
 > to people like myself we’re trying to hijack the Democratic Party? 
 > No, they hijacked the Democratic Party. We’re Franklin and Eleanor. 
 > They’re the Whitneys and the Morgans and the DuPonts and all those. 
 > We need to go back to the Rooseveltian principles and pillars of 
 > unequivocal advocacy for the working people of the United States."