Last thirty (if not forty) years, the public has witnessed the "Democratic Party" as it has has given us a group of Centrist politicians who are as much in thrall to Big Corporations as the RW is.
About the only dividing factor between the Two Corporate Owned parties is that the Democrats are more liberal on some social situations, like the rights of the LGBT crowd to marry, and the more liberal attitudes on the immigration situation. But the Obama Administation ahs failed miserably, until very recently, on the medical marijuana issue, and he let Holder destroy the state of California's medicinal marijuana clinics, and also he allowed Holder to throw many many people in jail whose only crime was helping others get med marijuana.
So over the last forty years, no matter which party is in charge, we have witnessed:
One) Out sourcing of jobs, not only manufacturing jobs, but even customer service jobs. One of the biggest travesties of the student loan situation is that the people now working to "resolve" a student's indebtedness are often sitting in an office in some third world country.
Two) Handing over the wealth of the Middle Class to the bigger Financial Forces. Why is it that under Ron Reagan, a mere eight cents out of every dollar of profit went to the Big Financial Firms? Fast forward to our time period, and 49 cents out of every dollar of profit generated in this nation goes to Big Banks.
In early October, 2008, the American public went ballistic, contacting Congress and letting its members know that they did not want to have the Big Banks and Big Finance to be bailed out.
But our Congressional Leaders, of Both Parties, are such Big Banking Puppets that they of course gave the Middle Class wealth away to Wall Street.
So 700 billions of TARP monies went to the biggest of the Big Financial people. And we are also told that some 14 to 17 trillions of dollars has also been loaned to these same firms, many of which are not even American companies. Experts tell us that some 4 trillion plus will not be paid back. (Which is why so many of our leaders, including Obama, are working so hard trying to convince us of the need to be in austerity mode - the "leaders" in this country are mere puppets who have promised to allow the Big Money People get their paws on Social Security.)
None of this gifting of our economy to Big Bankers could have occurred without Obama making the disastrous appointments that he made.
The result of all these giveaways to the likes of AIG and Go0ldman Sachs. Why, half the children in this nation are now living in poverty. The majority of people defending the Democratic Centrist leaders are those who have some ties to some industry that has been helped by this plunder!
Three) The Republicans have their crooks, while we have ours. How is Diane Feinstein considered a Democrat? She is far to the right of Ahnold Schwarzenegger. She re-wrote the laws of ethics for the US Senate, once she had a strong hold in the US Senate. She has stripped away any chance of having peace in our life time, as our perpetual war on terror has allowed herself and her hubby, Richard Blum, to garner close to if not over a billion dollars for war contracts for his company. She also had helped to destroy the Post Office, while her husband buys up the buildings and property whose actual owner was our government's Postal Service.
The historic murals alone held in those post offices will add millions to to the Feinstein/Blum fortune.
And she has never been impeached for her activities - but is held up as one of the nation's political leaders!?!
Four) The record of the Obama administration on our ecology is deplorable. Watch "Gaslands" and "Gaslands II" and then get back to me.
BTW, the nation's political structure was firmly in the hands o9f the Democrats from January 2009 to January 2011. Whether of not they could have handled the ACA in a better fashion is one thing, and we had raging controversies over whether it could have been a better dal for citizens than the friggin' mandate we have now. (I have three shitty choices on the "exchange" none of which offer me any relief health wise, here in California.
But regardless of that, when the Congress was in majority Dem mode, did they even attempt to overthrow the Dick Cheney plundering of our nation's ecological protective laws? (That Cheney had established d in 2005, with his Oil and Energy re-write of our laws.)? No sir or madam, they did not. In fact, many Democratic leaders were very happy to strip away our environment -witness Ed Rendell who while governor of his state not only tossed away the clean water in PA, but who now has a top position in one of the Biggest Energy firms in Texas, which continues to assault the air, land and water of our nation as county after county is fracked away.
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