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Posted By Wil 1 year, 7 months ago in NewsConservatism, having failed for more than 3 decades in its promise to bring broad prosperity to all Americans, has exploited the issues of God, guns and gays - and the lie that government is their enemy - to keep their con going. For awhile, voters were convinced to vote against their interests by conservatives armed with polarizing rhetoric...
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FTA: "The percentage of Americans polled by Gallup who say that they are worse off than they were five years agoâ;;31 percentâ;;is the highest recorded by the polling firm since it started asking the question in the mid-1960s. And that belief is based in reality: Median household income in 2006, $48,201, was lower in inflation-adjusted dollars than it was in 1999, the Census Bureau reports. The latest Democracy Corps memo includes a poll finding that 74 percent of Americans believe the economy is seriously off track.
That same memo also suggests that voters have caught on that conservatives who claimed they were taking government "off the backs" of the working class have put in into the pocket of corporations. "The focus of people's anger are the corporate special interests that dominate government, producing a demand that politicians make it a priority to take back government for middle class Americans," the memo says."
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