2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blaming Sanders: Why Democratic Party Unity is Officially Impossible [View all]GRhodes
(162 posts)Who exactly has compromised? Inequality has exploded. It is a fact, a proven fact, that most of the wealth has gone to the super rich during the recovery. In recent decades, wealth inequality has exploded, private debt has as well (and this has been felt most among those with the least income), deindustrialization has decimated working people but benefited mobile capitalists (and the jobs lost paid much better than those that have replaced them), finance has benefited at the expense of almost everyone (since finance's product is debt). People HAVE compromised for decades, and the rich have not. They haven't sacrificed a single thing, they've monopolized a good portion of the economic benefits. So don't tell me people are against compromise, what is being offered isn't a compromise, it is a further reduction in living standards, and more going to those with too much damn money to begin with. It's a one sided class war. I have the data and facts on my side too, it isn't just my opinion. We could give the entirety of economic growth to the working class and poor over the next five years and it still wouldn't make up for the "compromises" the corrupt politicians like Clinton, Trump, and those running the two parties have forced on us.
What people are asking in this "compromise" is to capitulate to a politician in Clinton that has made no secret of wanting to maintain this system as is, with slight modifications at most, and that's if she were to do everything she is now promising. She has no longer term vision of structural change, and those in power (including those in the media), benefit from this system and don't want to see any structural change as a result. What exactly would we compromise on? The issues are structural, not superficial, and what is being offered as a result are non-solutions.
Obviously, I am not speaking for Sanders or his supporters. No one asked GRhodes to post on democraticunderground to speak on their behalf, and some Sanders supporters don't agree with me.