2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Uppity Liberals [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)Isn't that what people who are in favor of getting rid of our absurd drug laws are also advocating for? Rightly so?
Wall Street is not a single monolith as you imagine it, and your vision of liberalism, that excludes the idea of liberals being able to do business, is in fact not a popular vision among liberals.
Modern day social liberals are social capitalists. They're not communist. If Democrats really were communists, I wouldn't be one.
And this for a very good reason: if fascism is the merger of State and Corporate power, then having the State take over corporations (communism), is just as dangerous as the reverse.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
/ I'll be happy to concede that the majority of players on Wall Street lean conservative. This hardly means all of them.
// You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that someone who donates money to Democratic candidates is really trying to get Republicans elected.