Exchange between Bill Clinton and New Mexico Resident Illustrates Deceptive Framing of Key Issues

[highprincipleswork]

10. First of all, look at the chart and you will see that what I am promoting in this post is no myth -

Democrats held majorities in Congress from 1933 -1995. The only two exceptions were 1947-1949 and 1953-1955 (by a little).

Guess which genius managed to turn this around? Bill Clinton, in his second term, when the count went to 204-230 in the wrong direction.

Since then we have been in the minority every time, except between 2007-2011, just before Barack Obama and for one term in we were still in the majority.

Clintonian triangulation and the strangulation of the New Deal policies and values that made for the middle class and better living conditions for everybody have been disastrous thus far, and will prove particularly disastrous in 2016 if the familiar playbook is used.

The majorities are absolutely no myth. The conditions for PoC and whether or not they shared equally in all the benefits? I feel sure you are right that they did not, but they did share, because they also are the recipients of Social Security and Medicare and other social benefits that are the direct offspring of FDR and the New Deal.

I would really like to hear your take on what great added value the Clintons have every brought to the lives of PoC. I'm not saying there aren't any, but I'd like to hear anyway. And then I'd like to get some perspective - how do these compare to dismantling the advantages of New Deal economics?