General Discussion

My Dad was a local truck driver -- Teamsters Union. My Mom was a stay-at-home "child development specialist" as she used to say. They raised nine kids (one passed in 2019) on one income and maybe we were, but we were economically okay and never never felt poor. We had a big house that my parents built on an acre of land in a farm community 35 minutes out of Boston back then, always a big old station wagon (for family use) and a sedan my Dad used for getting to work mostly. We had good health and even dental insurance. Most of us went to college. ... Aside: this is a big part of why I'm an all in progressive on the economic front -- we had a good and economically secure life as a large (Catholic) working class family -- albeit a white family. There was plenty of racism in and around Boston.

As a country, we've lost our way economically and now we are dealing with this fascism to boot! How my 3 trumper siblings can't see that is mind boggling. On the other hand, they are all members of the evangelical cult. F'ing "religion".