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kcjohn1

(751 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:23 PM May 2016

Amazing, Democratic Party = Establishment, GOP = Resurgency

Who would have thought this couple of years ago? It is amazing the transformation of political system. GOP voters have unclutched themselves from the elite establishment and are for better or worse charting a new course outside of the influence of big money interests. Think about this for a minute. Dem candidate will backed

-Elites or "grown" ups
-Wall Street and big money interests
-Neocons and Miltiary Industrial Complex

While the GOP candidate will be running populist campaign against the elite and free trade. Never thought I see the GOP run this type of candidate.

(This is not endorsement nor me believing what either candidate says, but how their campaigns will run)

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Joob

(1,065 posts)
1. It's sad to be honest, Bernie is fighting to literally save this party and gets treated like shit
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:27 PM
May 2016

By the DNC and Hillary's campaign and her supporters.

LonePirate

(13,418 posts)
3. It's absurd to expect a white, male, Republican billionaire not to cater to big money interests
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:34 PM
May 2016

People need to stop kidding themselves.

In related news, who is else is surprised by all of the pro-Trump posts today on DU? Not me, given who is making them and why.

kcjohn1

(751 posts)
4. No one is pro Trump
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:43 PM
May 2016

This is just commentary on state affairs. You can bury your head in sand, but that doesn't make the problem go away.

Clinton will be the candidate of big money interests. Trump is natural fit but guy is too unpredictable for them. So far they have spend hundreds of millions on him and they have lost.

In '12 and traditionally the GOP candidate is the clear favorite for big money interests. This will be the first election where GOP candidate is going to be on the opposite side and not just that, he will make this obviously clear in his campaign. "Clinton is the bought candidate". That is the campaign Obama ran against Romney.

CanonRay

(14,101 posts)
5. I think all the Trump populism is nothing but bullshit
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:55 PM
May 2016

He was born a 1%er and he'll always think like and be one. He's just playing the suckers.

kcjohn1

(751 posts)
7. I agree with you
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:01 PM
May 2016

But if you are one of those suckers will you believe the person who says the reason you have no job or shitty one is because your job was shipped to Mexico, and these illegal Mexicans are depressing your wages (also freeloading on your tax dollars), and I will stand up to the elites to put an end to it.

Or the candidate who originally said your job would not be impacted and singing the tune of investment and retraining and other bs that elites have being spewing for past 30 years.

In this scenario one person will be defending the system while the other will be saying burn it down

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. So, I'm guessing good, principled Bernie supporters will
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:01 PM
May 2016

of course be shifting to the populist Trump nobly campaigning against the Democratic extremely Democrat wealthy Democrat locusts sacking our county.

Fleeing in the process, of course, the evil Democrat elite Democrat establishment that has its clutches in the rest of us...Democrats?

Got it. Simple idea any idiot can get = Go right, turn, fight the Democratic Party.

kcjohn1

(751 posts)
8. Tell me what part of my analysis you disagree?
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:07 PM
May 2016

Am not talking about how we defeat Trump or GOP or strategy.

Don't you think its peculiar that the Democratic party is now the savior for the establishment and big money interests that use to call GOP home?

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