Mark is 100% right --- the Democrats' surrender (the title of my book by the way ---- shameless plug --- and it's free on line!) actually begins in the Carter Administration --- I might date it from the failure to pass a miniscule Labor Law "reform" and the cut in captial gains taxes in 1978 as well as deregulation of airlines --- CLINTON Surrendered when he opted for balanced budgets, NAFTA and so-called "welfare reform" --- OBAMA did (virtually) nothing to push back against a somewhat weakened banking sector based on the financial crisis of 2008 and the result was the WORST, most sluggish recovery of the entire postwar period which, in my opinion, is how we got Trump.
The Dems (and maybe a lot of members of the ruling class) are frightened by Trump and thus there is this (almost ridiculous) coalition that stretches from Wall Street Dems to Bernie and even more leftwing folks attempting to protect women's rights, immigrant rights, labor rights while recognizing the "real" goal of the corporate wing of the Dems ---- This has given the reformists a chance to attempt to get back SOME of the rights that existed before the Carter-Clinton-Obama sellout (like organizing rights for workers) --- and the corporate dems cannot shunt those demands aside as was done by Carter and Clinton --- So the DEMS gave us Trump and ironically they are the only thing standing in the way of Trump and Trumpism triumphing --- A really sad --- dangerous --- situation --- leaving us with the choice Mark mentions .... On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:18 AM Mark Baugher <m...@mbaugher.com> wrote: > > > > > working inside a reformist party > > I don't think that we have a reformist party in the US but two capitalist > parties and one with a reformist base. The Democrats work to eliminate any > non-MAGA Republicans so they can run against retrogrades who scare their > reformist base. The Democrats have waited almost three years to prosecute > Trump, so as to do it conveniently during an election year. That ensured > that Trump would be free to run despite January 6. So the Democrats give us > Trump. > > I'd say that they Democrats also helped to create him: The 2010s housing > crisis saw 10 million families evicted from their homes and losing what was > for many their life savings in a lost downpayment, but Obama did nothing, > and Clinton created the mortgage crisis by removing laws at the behest of > their banker donors. Long-term and short-term, the Democrats helped to > create Trump and MAGA, and they continue to. Hence the paradox of any > policy to vote against Trump by voting for the party that created him. > > Mark > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29054): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29054 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104479559/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
