@Proud_n_Purple There IS an answer to your question. Here it is:

@Thom_Hartmann Defining a minimum wage without a maximum was the road to hell... Minimum wage no longer even covers rent.

@Proud_n_Purple @MadocLeonard Thought that was the Democrats

@adrian_sleeman @MadocLeonard

@Proud_n_Purple Slaves. For the rich. That will do ANYTHING for a pittance.

@BruceBa21417771 And you are the lucky winner in my humble opinion. It now requires three minimum wage jobs to survive. Working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week leaves little time left over. Sounds like slavery to me. No wonder so many turn to crime.

@Proud_n_Purple An equally perplexing question is why @TheDemocrats can't sweep every election in that situation. They can't market the idea that everyone should be better off except for multimillionaires and billionaires. They can't hit a target audience of 85% of the population.

@gamerdave69 @TheDemocrats SMH

@Proud_n_Purple Yes they want a UN tied States of America

@Proud_n_Purple They're sadists.

@Proud_n_Purple They want to be known as "The People's Party".

@Proud_n_Purple This explains just about everything you want to know about republicans.

@Proud_n_Purple @king_sandirella Because they are paid by the puppetmasters (rich donors) and it's clear that is what they want. It benefits the rich to keep the lower income blaming the poor for everything.

@Proud_n_Purple So they can drive Americans into the ground, like Russia did, and rhe rich politicians can become Oligarchs/Kings/Queens and make us their lowly serfs to serve them

@Proud_n_Purple They what the billionaires tell them to do, that's who gives them their allowance.

@Proud_n_Purple I subscribe less to the idea of any grand plan and more to the notion that it is ideology gone wild and directed by powerful, unelected forces whose bottom line is money and themselves. Their staff, who purport to be elected officials, heed their bidding.

@Proud_n_Purple @RPondelick Cos the Russians fund them

@Proud_n_Purple @RPondelick Sounds almost Communist

@Proud_n_Purple Because they’re able to spin these messes as the fault of the Democratic Party and the MAGA contingent believes every word of it. And anything that contradicts their message is labeled fake news