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In reply to the discussion: Post mortem thread. Why did we lose? [View all]Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Obama, it was really Clinton's policies that we are feeling the effects from.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulated the media to the point that there is now no truth in advertising; no standards for reporting; hence, Chuck Todd declaring that it's not his job to report the truth. Now there's 5 or 6 mega-media conglomerates, and we wonder why Rachel Maddow, who is no smarter than Randi Rhodes, has "gone soft".
We complain that though Obama has created jobs, those jobs suck. Why do those jobs suck? Thanks to free trade policies under Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, the good jobs are gone. It's all now about cheap labor. An under-skilled working class now. That's not Obama's fault, though he gets blamed for shit that previous presidents set in stone.
I could go on and on, but I think you catch my drift.