This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice,

believers in peace, freedom in the American way. Common dreams, commentary, three dark

and disturbing reasons why Trump could win again. Number one, people think the

economy is great because unemployment is down at 3 point something percent.

Interesting little factoid, the Department of Labor is now considering a person employed if

they work as little as one hour a week.

One hour a week.

Right.

Meanwhile the bottom 60% of pay earners in the United States are experiencing a dramatic increase in one thing and

a decrease in others. The decrease is in pay almost a third of America's

workforce. The entire workforce of the United States works for less than $12 an hour, nearly all without health

insurance or any other benefits.

And what the bottom 60% of earners are doing so well at, dying in increasing rates from drugs and suicides. It's an

explosion. That's our booming economy, right? Number two, fear of the

socialists and this might actually work because inequality has

gotten so much worse as a result of Reaganism and Trumpism and all this kind of stuff

in our so-called free trade policies and this rampant inequality actually as Wilkerson and Pickett pointed

out Robert Wilkerson and Kate Pickett pointed out that when inequality increases, the ability of people to trust strangers or trust

society diminishes.

So encountering something you don't know makes you even more wary of it like something like

like democratic socialism is not well known to a lot of Americans

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