2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Why is the DNC trying to screw over Bernie Sanders?" [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)a moderate Republican. There were advantages for her to do so at the time, I assume the same of Bill as well. They both agree with each and every Republican fiscal goal, Bill has even proven himself the best Republican President of our modern age by signing Republican born bills into law that other Republicans had failed to. He did a great job of rolling back Democratic FDR gains like no other Republican, including the regulations that kept us safe from Wall Street for 50 years as well as destroying welfare. He also expanded the Republican "war on some drugs" aimed at "certain darker citizens" that Reagan began, far more than even Reagan could have dreamed. He also managed to help his wealthy sponsors by signing NAFTA that destroyed jobs here in order to increase profits for the corporations by allowing them to use cheap labor elsewhere, undermining our own workforce.
By Registering as a Democrat, Bill was able to double the amount of impoverished in this country with the stroke of a pen, he also managed to more than double the non-violent population in incarceration, While taking the safeguards off our banks allowing them to plunder at will culminating in what we are now calling "the great recession."
Before working towards a Republican fiscal agenda he worked with other Republicans registered as Democrats for tactical reasons (using Koch and other corporate and banker funding) to help with his wife Hillary (both co-founders) in forming the DLC in order that other moderate Republicans had a ready home and financial banking from the financial elite within our party, which over time made it a Democratic party that was at best a hybrid Republican/Democratic NEW party, or as the like to call it the "New Democrat movement" (they choose to leave out the ic at the end of Democrat in all there institutions such as The New Democrat coalition etc. So don't blame me for the Republican description of "Democratic", they call themselves and their movement that, not I.)
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In conclusion, we are told to call people what they Register as, so Bernie Sanders is equally a Democrat as is Hillary Clinton Joe Lieberman and Bill Clinton.
My Conclusion:
A Republican Registering as a Democrat in order to damage the legacy of the Democratic party and do everything possible to disrupt weaken and destroy the New Deal, Great Society, and Civil Rights. Is a tactical move I find appalling.
An FDR Democrat registering as an Independent for a time, because the party change to "New Democrat" and then for tactical reasons Registered as a Democrat to bring back the old Democratic party, is a tactic I can respect and even agree with!