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In reply to the discussion: I will tell you why Maddow's "Hubris" aired NOW and not back then. And you won't like it. [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Why?
Because we elected some influential Democrats who took "impeachment off the table," who will not go after war profiteers, who will not prosecute happy, openly-admitted war criminals, and whose political stance is that "It could be worse under the Republicans."
Because such influential Democratic politicians not only defeat the efforts of other Democratic politicians who value traditional Democratic values, they have triangulated and adopted many of the Republican values, and repeatedly betrayed their base.
Because such politicians know that the American middle-class (or what was the American middle-class) is hurting economically but they promote policies which continue to hurt what is left of the American middle-class for the benefit of the rich and international super-rich.
As ignorant and stupid as many Republicans are, sooner or later they will get around to supporting Republican candidates with Ronald-Reagan type personalities whose public policies will be in alignment with the influential Democratic politicians mentioned above.
Do we want endless wars with unprosecuted war criminals? We don't, but that's what we got. Do we want even more let's-send-jobs to foreign countries "free-trade" agreements? No, if you are a thinking person who is part of the American middle class.
Name any traditional Democratic value that you can - including the right to privacy, the right to due process of law, and support for Social Security - and you will find influential Democratic politicians who are like or are ready to be like Republicans on the issue.
What will really bring back the Republicans "like fungus" is something similar to the assault-weapons ban of the 1990's which led to the 1994 defeat of a great many Democrats in Congress (per Bill Clinton in his biography, as one source). Suposedly, people like Rahm Emanuel who said that liberals are "fucking retarded," purport to believe that all good liberals are in favor of gun control even when gun-control proposals are irrational and include banning cosmetic features.
Count on it. The Republicans will "come back like fungus."