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Aisle 47 – Installment 8 – Making the Economy Work for Everyday Americans

By Mary | by Mary

This is the eighth installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy.  Wealth Inequality in the U.S. – Pre-Civil War, Gilded Age, Roaring Twenties, and Today Every time there is a breakdown in American society, there’s been a vast wealth imbalance behind it. A relatively small cadre of individuals decides they must horde all the wealth and resources and treat everyone…

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Symbols of the Resistence

By Mary | by Mary

To learn about ways to save U.S. democracy from an anti-democratic regime, I read “Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World,” by Srdja Popovic. Popovic helped lead a nonviolent student movement called Otpor! to overthrow Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. Though I have read the book three times, I didn’t understand how, in a practical way, people could use…

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Proud Snowflake

By Mary | by Mary

During Donald Trump’s first term as president, his supporters, MAGA (Make America Great Again) Republicans, started calling pro-democracy folks “snowflakes.” They thought they were being clever. “Har, har, snowflakes are so fragile! They melt with a little heat. Lol!” True, snow melts with heat, as it has been doing these past few days in Minnesota. It’s the middle of February and we’ve got temps in the high 50 degrees Fahrenheit, about 30 to 40 degrees…

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