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Originally Posted by Adder
In retrospect, Clinton's acquiescence to right-wing insistence that government is bad was a massive strategic failure that empowered "starve the beast" as a governing strategy and has left us without the means to stave off three decades of upward redistribution of income and wealth.
Yes, the democrats are complicit in the undermining of functioning government, but they are also the only possible hope to restore it.
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Wait... I thought everything was going well? I mean, the market's up, unemployment's down, and all those jobs being eliminated are being replaced with equally well-paying positions in new industries created by the tech disruptors and cheap foreign labor. Adam Fucking Smith's cycle, in all it's glorious wonder.
These last ten years haven't been a phantom recovery, have they? We haven't been blowing up another asset bubble to get the baby boomers who are dependent on the market to the finish line, have we? Please don't tell me much of this growth has been fueled by things like buybacks. I'd lose faith in this country. Hell, a lot of people would lose faith in this country. They'd think it was a rigged game and then elect some kind of demagogue.
No... No. That can't be true. This has been a real recovery. And things are just dandy. People just need to develop a more sunny disposition! It might not be morning in America, but it's a brunch hour, and if you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, why gosh darnit, you can be the next Horatio Alger! Go on out there, Mr. Millennial, and get yourself that brass ring in that shiny new gig economy of ours!
