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Old 08-09-2018, 11:22 AM   #2247
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Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy View Post
My claim was that Dems had been on the right side of the good things that had happened.

Yes, Dems were on the wrong side of a lot of bad things that happened. Crim Justice "Reform" of the 90s is a good example. Again, it's a party, not something to be worshipped. Plenty of mistakes. But not much that is good in politics happens without us.
Not much good happens with you. You're co-opted by corporatists as much as the other party and cry that you deserve a pass because you do some good works while the other party is flat out evil and stupid.

Okay, you get some credit for that. You're better than the GOP -- a bar about one foot above the floor. You're bought and paid for, but you're not ogres... You're happy to redistribute in the limousine liberal fashion (so long as it doesn't offend the interests that own your legislators). But as to solutions? As to methods by which you might create jobs for the middle and lower classes? Well, you can't do any of that. Sure, you'll do it for the unions that support you. And you'll talk about fantasies like retraining. But you toe the corporate line just like everybody else. When the people who line your pockets tell you to squash Bernie Sanders, you follow orders. When the hedge fund army that supports your party tells you its preferred policies, you react exactly the same way as the GOP does when the fossil fuel oligarchs tell it what to do.

Sure, Democrats are better. They aren't as stupid as the GOP. They aren't riddled with racists and xenophobes. They're smart enough to get behind clean energy, and they're good on social policy. But do they actually plan to help the disadvantaged find any economic dignity? No. They want to redistribute, placate, and continue a country where 20% get great lives, and the other 80% increasingly need the help of govt to survive. That's hardly a noble charge. One could argue its cynicism borders on the sociopathic.

Voted for Clinton and John Kerry, and various other Ds in local, state, and congressional races. (Because you'll go there.)

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*Cynically and smartly by the way, as status quo protection, because they know it's better to placate the angry population than let them starve as the GOP would.
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