Re: Barcelona
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Bush is the well meaning Dr. who created the monster.
The alliance between the religious right, racists, and the Republican party was built by Reagan, encouraged by the Bushes', and pushed full throttle by Murdock and right wing radio. You need to have a powerful and willful ignorance of American history to not see where the union of those forces ends. Many of us called this one a long time ago.
Bernie is the dying breath of post-War laborism. Minimum wage, protectionism. Yawn.
But I am increasingly fascinated by AOC. She seems more the future of populism than any of them.
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I don't think Bush created it. He tried to compromise with it, and only partly succeeded.
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