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In reply to the discussion: The small group of Dems who hate Hillary hated Bill, too. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I would bear no criticism of Bill and defended him almost fanatically. Like you I didn't learn about the reality of the stuff he was passing with Newt until later.
Luckily, after learning about his betrayals of the working class and poor in favor of the wealthy I began to research people like Will Marshal and organizations like the DLC and PPI. I guess he is the reason I know their game plan so well now even as a newer generation falls for it like I once did.
The plan is simple enough, stealth Republicanism that uses liberal social issues as a mask to hide right wing economic goals, these people are nothing more than "Reagan Democrats" and Moderate (in the case of social issues) Republicans.
They worship the Chicago school of economics and hate Keynes. The enable oligarchy and aid in the slow destruction of safety nets and unions. They are not our friends, the are the friends of the wealthy only. They were early getting on the Koch bandwagon and used Koch money as start up funding for their DLC and went so far as to put Koch associates on their board, it is no coincidence that as soon as people like me revealed their connection to the Kochs the DLC was disbanded (but not PPI) and they started calling themselves third way instead.