2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann - How Stupid Has the Democratic Party Become? [View all]cer7711
(502 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 23, 2015, 09:41 PM - Edit history (1)
. . . "corrupt", "co-opted", "bankster-bought", "FDR amnesiacs", "blue-dog plutocratic pets", and "working-class hostile/middle-class indifferent."
Or as certain members of the Democratic elite (having learned all the wrong lessons from the Reagan era) might tell us with an unctuous smile whilst nervously eyeing their fat, corporate-padded bank accounts: "We're the adults in the room, honey. We're third-way, triangulating, less-is-more, eternally-'evolving' Wall Street toadies who know how to get things done, by god! Don't you know that Wall Street is where the power is? Stop asking for a glitter-farting unicorn (single-payer, affordable college education, a return to 1950s tax rates, re-institution of job-protecting tariffs, enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act, restoration of Glass-Steagall) and sit the fuck back down, Mr. Whiner, until ordered to vote again."
What contempt they must have for the (according to a recent study) near 50% of US households who can't weather a $400 unexpected expense without it turning into a major crisis! It's our fault, you see, that we work harder and harder while falling farther and farther behind. We're just too f---ing stupid, lazy, unlucky and/or hopelessly under-skilled to thrive in this new down-sized, corporate-welfare-driven, too-big-to-fail, "free trade" (hah!), "right-sized", worker-hostile economy.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150607/PC05/150609735/1013/could-you-cover-400-expense
It's democratic socialism or mass social upheaval--one way or another, revolution is coming . . .