How the Hell We Got Here: Why the Democratic Party is Splitting

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144. It's the Third Way/DLC that caused it.

Bill Clinton and company decided winning was more important than anything else. And those people are still around. That included acting like Republicans: war on drugs, mass incarceration, letting the banks nearly destroy the economy, welfare "reform", school "choice", military incursions in places we should leave alone, etc.

They've all but abandoned the working class and the poor to sell their souls to corporations.

Being a social progressive is easy. Not much has to change. The Supreme Court did most of the work already. Laws are already in place prohibiting discrimination. The hard work has already been done. By someone else. You can just jump on that bandwagon and it will make you so, so popular politically. It's easy; it feels good. But you cannot touch the third rail, which is economic inequality, because the powers that be, the corporations, cannot have their sacred duty to rape and pillage derailed by do-gooders. Heaven forbid their shareholders complain about lower dividends due to lost profits by paying an actual living wage. We cannot have that, no sir.-