2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Clinton Campaign Is Screwed [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)crossroads Pac. I want the details.
FDR's plans were also unworkable until FDR worked them.
Republicans still claim, after all these years, and so many lives saved, that Medicare and Social Security are unworkable.
What is unworkable is the pessimism, the "can't do" attitude of the Clinton campaign. As the Friends of Bill and Hillary will find out in the end.
Please read my post on the Weimar Republic.
We either make democracy work for all the people or we will end up with a very different, very ugly form of government.
Those are, realistically, our choices.
That is, we will end up with an ugly form of government provided the environment doesn't end our existence before then.
We have one choice: work together and support each other.
It's the same in families. It's the same in nations.
I cannot support any candidate whose policies divide America. I think Hillary's do. You cannot take money from Wall Street and other wealthy people and then turn around and work for ordinary people. As we have seen over the past 40 years, that cannot be done.
NAFTA is an abomination for most Americans. And Mexico is in bad shape in part because of it too.