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In reply to the discussion: Channeling Monty Python: The "Grand Bargain" Is Not Quite Dead Yet... Just For This Year... [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)32. Indeed and I'm an older Democrat who thought Clinton was so charismatic coming from Poverty
in Arkansas would know what Poverty was...what it was to grow up in Segregated South and would understand what to do about this. And I bought into the DLC Rhetoric about Dems needing to Re-Brand to get Reagan America to look at us after Carter (a huge hope) had his difficulties and wasn't re-elected.
ON EDIT..I was young with Carter...(the great hope of Kennedy) for us...
and then CLINTON after the horrible Reagan/Bush years. I was starry eyed like those who voted for Obama...(he wasn't my choice..Al Gore would have been) and so....I understand the Enthusiasm and the Disappointment......it's the story of my Democratic Life.
Dems bought into some Meme from the RW Think Tanks that we were not "Business Friendly Enough" and the DLC which Bill and Hillary helped found wanted to go after the RW real bad...and they did and they won.
But...somewhere along the way our DEMOCRATS SOLD OUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL. I think that OBAMA has followed that path. It's the MONEY and the EUPHORIC POWER that goes to their heads..........or it's some character flaw ....OR...they are THREATENED. Or...there's NO Difference now between either party except for the Extremists on the LEFT (those Obama loves to make fun of as being the Extreme Left who want Social Services) OR the Extremists on the Right (which the Right calls their TEA PARTY who want to Privatize Everything and let Corporations Rule in Private/Public Partnerships)
BUT...something is breaking apart our country, lifestyle and future.
I think the blame goes everywhere. Something is VERY WRONG and NEEDS to be FIXED!
HOW DO WE REPAIR THIS!
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Channeling Monty Python: The "Grand Bargain" Is Not Quite Dead Yet... Just For This Year... [View all]
WillyT
Feb 2014
OP
Third Way Surreal: President seeks credit for election-year pause in his own hostage-taking.
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#5
Thank you. You laugh or you cry, but it's actually revolting and deeply, deeply unfunny
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#15
+10000, and we see the same manipulative corporate game shaping up with Net Neutrality, too.
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#23
and perhaps more importantly it solidifies the framing of "SS is a deficit issue"
MisterP
Feb 2014
#14
Makes one think about the Third Way/New Democrats and how they got here...
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#27