I wrote about the Republican Party’s historical trajectory:
From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump. How the hell did we end up here?
Some thoughts from my new piece - an attempt to identify key moments and dynamics in the history of the modern Right:
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https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/ca9ee28e-8da8-48a2-ac80-7a59ddcc1443
" the Democratic Party is the country’s sole (small-d) democratic party"
The remaining small-d-democratic party is not far behind the autocratic Republicans.
The current breed of politicians are doing the bidding of the owner class and they know it and act accordingly, despite having the numbers of real life victims of capitalism ala the bigger/richest owner class.
They don't work towards getting lobby/money influence out of the decision tree.
I think this is really easy to say if you're not a black or brown person being hunted down on the streets of an American city.
I think that the capital-D Democratic Party betrayed its people for decades, because even after Nixon aide Ehrlichman confessed, the capital-D Democratic party didn't take away the incentive for political prisoners and restored that part of US democracy.
And their current willingness to fund Trump's storm troops aka DHS speaks volumes.
You think that because you have probably lived a privileged life. I know that my aunt is alive today because of Obamacare. She's not alone, 20 million people received healthcare as a result of that bill.
And if Clinton the asshole had restored the security pool to its former glory a lot more people would be alive today and reforms with the black voting pool intact, many legislation in favor of people would have been possible.
You might even have avoided Trump both times and Hillary Clinton wouldn't have been the Democratic candidate either.
You ignore the big picture of anecdotal evidence. Living on the wrong side of the track in food deserts is a reality in the US.
I'm not sure what you're talking about but Bill Clinton was highly regarded in the black community. In fact so was Hillary, that's how she beat Bernie in 2016, even though he blamed it on the "elites", aka black people in southern states. He was the original election denier and to this day his base still claims that election was stolen from them. The similarities with MAGA are striking.
The left in my country shifted to the right the same way as Bill Clinton did, and how much of a problem this represents is coming to lights these days.
We are fighting fascists because of it.
Back in the days it was the zeitgeist and it didn't seem to have this much of an impact. Sure life got a little harder for the less privileged but for most either nothing changed or even seemed to get easier.
We didn't see the true cost.
Thomas Zimmer
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