As liberals were busy fighting for Women, Minority and Gay Rights battles we still have not won but we are certainly better than the 60′s we neglected helping the average worker who’s standard of living has declined.
The GOP it seems have one over the White voters most effected by this change by playing divide and conquer games.
It seems from the data that we must help the average worker’s standard of living again.
Not because we want to win more elections because by helping the average worker more we certainly can win more elections.
We are already wining elections with more Women Minority and Gay voters and demographic changes suggest we will only win more elections if we continue as we are.
Nope we need to work more helping workers raise their standard of living because its the right thing to do.
Not that we neglect Women, Minority and Gay rights instead we need to link helping everyone to helping Women, Minorities and Gays.
As far as morals are concerned people who have good paying jobs tend to steal less. People who are moral can afford to get married and raise a family. We can’t expect people who don’t have enough money to raise a family to just give up sex. The book ” A Modest Proposal ” shows that even in 100% Catholic Ireland with people starving people did not give up having sex. Then abandoning their babies on the roadside because they could not take care of their babies.
We can point out that if you are rich enough not too worry about the law its easy to steal, look at Enron look at the bank collapse how many of them are even doing time?
The possibility of unlimited wealth attracts psychopaths like moths to a flame so remove the flame.
Look at Rush, Newt, Senator Vitter, Mark Sanford unlimited wealth makes it easier to leave your wife and or family.
Its one thing if you don’t get married because you can’t support a family and you can’t control your sexual urges. It can be argued that people who work low wage jobs and are Very not likely to ever be able to afford a family have no incentive to wait.
But psychopaths who already have a wife and family and a very comfortable life just what is their excuse?
Even before the banking crisis money not cheating was the biggest cause for arguments in a marriage.
Cheaters are not all psychopaths far from it, sometimes two people just make a mistake and get married.
But its the lack of money that is the biggest reason married people argue.
Lesson money as a reason for divorce or never getting married and we increase family values by increasing the amount of families.
Then we only have to think about what to do about cheaters who will cheat no matter how much money they have. Psychos who will cheat and cheat quite often and people who made a mistake marrying them.

Words reflect culture but the culture of the Right is anti moral, anti family.

While the Left has made words like preferences more popular Sexual Preference comes to mind we have dropped the ball on helping the family as we let wages drop thus making it harder to start a family.
Bobo seems confused about the link he points out between words, culture and morals.
What is interesting is that the words changed before Reagan made living standards drop for the average worker.
Words use in a sense pre stages changes in culture and morals.
A decline in family life seems to pre stage a drop in morals.
I would have to do more research on the 60-70′s to confirm this but just think of the implications!
Word use predicts change in society. At what level does word use have to increase before change in society becomes a given?
Given the internet has changed things we can all write now but not that many people read the internet a 1,000 blog posts about National Healthcare read by 100,000 people ( I am just making up numbers) don’t carry the weight of a few mentions on the 10 o clock news and 50 newspaper mentions in the 60′s due to the tv news’s and newspaper’s bigger audience back then.
Trying to factor this in is way beyond my abilities but maybe Jane might be interested. It could help FDL get higher ad buy rates.

GOPers made those words swear words say those words and the GOP accuses you of wanting to help Dark People by redistributing wealth.
Does Bobo realize that he is attacking the GOP?
You might want to write a post on this subject Marion I have not been keeping up with Bobo so I know I can’t answer readers questions about Bobo if I were to write on this subject.

That is to say, over those 48 years, words and phrases like “personalized,” “self,” “standout,” “unique,” “I come first” and “I can do it myself” were used more frequently. Communal words and phrases like “community,” “collective,” “tribe,” “share,” “united,” “band together” and “common good” receded.”

But the GOP hates the 60′s they love family values but they also all love Greed which ok they won’t admit they love greed in public now they use code phrases like tax cuts to the rich create jobs and class warfare. They all love to considered self made men Mitt ,Cheney, Bush, Ron and Rand Paul.
Logically just how can you be a self made man and still talk about family values?

The real issue Blow is the congress is doing nothing but getting photo ops.They can’t balance a budget. They can’t act rationally. Their entire political success depends on you and your cohorts writing utterly brilliant diatribe about the self inflicted wounds and heroic efforts towards self gratification. All the scandals have been and always r a part of the second term. America eagerly awaits the orgasm we call elections. We all know that news “print” costs money so stop with the gall.