2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Anyone but Bernie [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Nobody likes to be regulated, '
Naturally they are going to complain about Dodd Frank. They don't want ANY regulations. And to them it's especially annoying because they are not used to actually having new controls placed on them, even if relatively minor. It's an affront to the natural order they have gotten accustomed to over the last 35 years.
And, if Democrats were serious about Citizens United they would be filing bills every day or doing whatever else it takes to get around the SC ruling. Sure the GOP would fight and block it. But politics is supposed to be about a battle between political parties and ideologies. Eventually, either one side wins, or a compromise is reached. The GOP understands that. Why can't the Dems be as relentless as the GOP on that any any number of other things?
As I said above, ultimately what Sanders and his supporters are trying to do is move the Democrats away from the "center right" and back to the center left (capital "L" Liberalism) to at least restore some balance to the political equation.