THAT is what has hurt Democrats the worst, IME. It's been a pox on all of us. It's all basically a repackaged Reagan-Thatcher austerity with a few Democratic symbols thrown in. It's not hard to see it, but it took rank-and-file democrats a while to understand what was going on. Once they saw it, they rebelled against it, and still are. As much as I loved Obama, and was thrilled to death when he won the presidency twice, he was still a student of neoliberalism. At that point, in my mind, it became do we give our money to rich republicans or rich democrats? Cause one thing's for sure, they'll be taking our money, one way or another.
Don't get me wrong... I voted for Clinton and was thrilled when he won. I count his presidency as an extremely successful term in what it accomplished. And, like every other president, there were a lot of things I did not agree with... NAFTA, as the one that hangs on most in my memory, and also the rejiggering of "Welfare." Only a Democrat could have ruined the national safety net, and it was a democrat who made the first huge cut. Republicans have been dipping into it ever since. Oh, we still have welfare in this country... it's just it's welfare for the rich, instead of help for those who need it. Hillary's campaign had a whole lot of issues associated with it. I'm still disappointed she wasn't our first female president. Like her, I come across much to assertive for my gender, I've been told. It's not looked upon well in society... but it is a good trait to have as a country's leader. She would have been a great leader. I did worry about her neoliberalism politics, tho. I was concerned about having another Margaret Thatcher raise her head trying to reorder the economy and society. That may have been just my worrywart attitude. But Thatcher began England's downhill slide, just as Reagan did ours. It was only more evident quicker across the ocean. We're quickly catching up.
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