Posted on 07/31/2017 2:41:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
As the 2018 election approaches, author Thomas Frank argues that the party has made a catastrophic mistake by coddling big money and disavowing its New Deal roots.
Frank: It starts in the 1970s with the Democrats removing organized labor from its structural position in the Democratic party, and then it goes up through Bill Clinton getting NAFTA done, the free trade deals that the Democrats have ... By the way, in my opinion, free trade or the trade agreements, I should say, was probably the issue that if there was one issue that really did Hillary in, I think that's what it was: the trade deals under the Clinton administration, Obama sort of dropping the ball on labor's various issues, doing these incredible favors for Wall Street while he blew off the concerns of union.
Sirota: Where do you see that passion the most?
Frank: Bailouts. The Wall Street bailout was the worst. This was, of course, George W. Bush ... No, take a step back further. The deregulation under Clinton. Do you remember, bank deregulation was something that we now think of it as one of the central elements of neoliberalism, but Reagan couldn't get it done. Reagan tried. They put some dents in Glass Steagall when Reagan was president, but it took a Democrat to really get it done, Bill Clinton, and it wasn't just blowing up Glass-Steagall. There was this whole series of bank deregulatory measures when he was president. By the end of his term in office, basically, Wall Street was more or less openly identified with the Democratic Party. This is an enormous historical shift…
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The Democrat Party was not exactly there for the folks in Youngstown, Detroit and Pittsburgh when their lives came crashing down around them in the 70’s either.
“What’s The Matter With Democrats?”
Mrs. RQSR said over my shoulder as she read the screen “What isn’t?”
The Dummycrat party was the party of slavery and has been the party of Marxism for 100 years.
There have been a few exceptions of Dummycrays who were patriots (eg Truman/JFK) although there type have been driven out of the modern party.
Both those men would be Trump Republicans today.
The Dummycrat Partu of today exists for one purpose only - anti-Americanism
The matter with Democrats is that they represent those who they hope will vote for them in the future after illegals get amnesty and unfettered muslim refugees are allowed to stay forever and all of them become voters and replace the existing american populace. They haven’t figure out that those people can’t vote yet, and that the people who can vote can vote for people who will get rid of those future voters.
They suck ... Donkey balls ...
He says "meritocracy" but what he has described is "credentialocracy." It is a different animal.
The democrat party has a racist history and then gradually enveloped their evil plot to socialize our country. The Dem party has been taken over by left wing socialist and communists.
The acceleration of implementing socialism/communism came with the Clinton administration and picked up steam with Obama. We need to get these farkers out of the swamp/sewer if we are to have any luck saving our country!!!
It's the same problem. They won't listen to voices from outside their discipline, and they show this extraordinary deference to one another, to the people at the top.
Then I say, "Well, has there ever been a time when it worked?" This is where it gets interesting because, of course, there is. Government by expert has worked. The Roosevelt administration. They call them The Brain Trust. It worked very well. They pulled us out of the Depression. They won World War II. These guys were awesome. I start digging around. Who were these guys? Here is the fascinating thing. They were brilliant, but they came from all different walks of life.
They weren't all these highly credentialed academic authorities. That's not what they were. This is the thing that you finally realize. There are highly intelligent people all over America, from all sorts of backgrounds, in all sorts of different industries. Th
Absolutely amazing.
He has all the data he needs and comes up with the wrong answer.
Hey, Idiot! You can’t plant an economy!
FDR’s experts didn’t end the Depression they extended it!!!!
Trade policy was a factor but far, far from the top 10 reasons HilLIARy lost.
in any order you like,
her lies
her corruption, sale of governmental acts
her lies
her ugly personality
her support for Zero-care
her taking a reported $200million in contribution bribes from Islamic dictatorships
her lies
her abuse of her hubbie
her daughter’s idiocy
her diabolical illegal invasion, bombing of Libya, support for same in Syria to install Obama’s anti-American Islamic terrorist gangsters
her diabolical laugh
and concerns that her need for regular KickaPoo Joy Juice shots in her rump make her vulnerable to additional blackmail by Islamic and other enemies of America?
but just her meanness and contempt for the American people probably did it most of all (’deplorables!’)
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They are an anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life criminal collective. Witness the actions of their gang hierarchy.
They have become elitist scum.
Democrats constantly crow about having superior IQ’s all the while depending on the least educated as part of their base.
What’s wrong?
Solidarity
And the Republicans have never been there for them. GOP priorities have been to send jobs overseas and importing millions of illiterate Third Wold immigrants to work what few jobs remain.
We now have essentially two broken and ineffective political parties, wholly out of touch with the needs of the American people, which is why we have President Trump and both parties singularly focused on hobbling his agenda.
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