2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]ebayfool
(3,411 posts)and it's treating Democrats as cogs to do as they are told, among many points. The old shut up and sit down. If that's all you take away from reading the entire thing, I have no idea how to make it clear to you.
BTW. I have rec'd OP's like the gorilla/kid story and the takeover of the Wildlife Preserve. Doesn't mean I'm pro killing endandered species, letting kids die to save them nor cheering frickin' militia groups storming the gates. It means I'm rec'ing to let others know it's a worthwhile read, or salient writing, or a train wreck in real time! As has been a fixture on DU for years. But I'm certain you know that, and are being disingenuous by saying otherwise. And youbetcherass I rec'd this OP. It has a lot of merit for discussion.
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What they also object to is that the larger bloc of Sanders voters has been treated with abuse and contempt by the Clinton camp, despite the fact that their positionssuch as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, stronger educational funding and higher minimum wageshave for decades polled by solid majorities or, at worst, ample pluralities in the electorate at large.
By contrast, the Democratic Party in the Clinton and Obama administrations has consistently embraced and implemented policies that strip workers of economic and legal rights to benefit investors and the elite professionals that serve them. Over time, the neoliberal economic orderwhich sees only good, never bad, in the relentless untrammeling of capital and the deregulation of marketshas created an unacceptable level of economic insecurity and distress for those outside the 1 percent and the elite professionals who serve them.
The result is that the U.S. economy is becoming lethal to the less fortunate, according to the New York Times, which reported this week that U.S. death rates have risen for the first time in a decade. The increase in death rates among less educated whites since 2001 is roughly the size of the AIDS epidemic. One cause, the opioid epidemic, resulted from Purdue Pharma overselling the effectiveness of reformulated OxyContin, then recommending higher dosages when it failed to work properly, which experts deemed a prescription for creating addicts, according to a number of lawsuits. This was permitted by the U.S. government, leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths. Despite President Barack Obamas Panglossian claim that the economy is doing well, the spike in suicides to levels over those during the financial crisis belies that.