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Originally Posted by Martina
To add to my list, remember NAFTA???????
Republicans wrote that in order to destroy labor unions. It could not pass because Democrats opposed it. Then Clinton was elected, and his first big accomplishment was to pass NAFTA. He wasn't the first Dem to undermine unions, but he took it to a new level. And the Democrats never looked back. They have helped engineer inequality for the sake of the professional elites and corporate interests. And then they blame working people, saying oh you should have gone to Harvard or Yale like I did.
That Listen, Liberal book by Thomas Frank takes you through the Democrats' abandonment of the working class legislation by legislation. No one, no one is more culpable than the Clintons. Boarded up main streets are their legacy. Trump is their legacy.
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I do not argue your point about the book by Thomas Frank, Martina, but I think Thomas Frank, once a 'college republican', wrote a more telling book concerning conservative think tank politics:
The Wrecking Crew: How The Conservatives Rule (August 2008). I read this particular book of his because he's got a bone to pick with GOP cronies who basically steered the process for NAFTA. As I recall, right after three horrid terms of Reagonomics, Bush SR was the one to instigate back room talks about NAFTA. His son Bush JR was the one who tried to push it through, but thankfully the Democratic Party denounced it, and refused to vote it in. THEN, on the tails of Bush Jr leaving office, it was Clinton who supposedly got it pushed through, but under the premise of 'bi-partisan' dialogue between two political parties: the notorious GOP; and the Democratic Party led by the Clinton voter base. Like I said, I could be wrong, but this is how I recall the spiraling NAFTA issue. I even excerpted some of The Wrecking Crew book by Thomas, in my senior capstone Labor paper for my bachelor of science degree, which highlighted key elements of NAFTA during the year Obama was elected President of the US, back in 2008.
I am personally OVER the 'blame game' of who did what, etc.
To be thread compliant, I still have not any good idea on who will ultimately lead the Democratic Party out of the depths of GOP hell. There are quite a few contenders in the field, it's early yet, I keep hoping that Texas Democrat Julian Castro will make a stronger showing than what he did a few weeks ago; but I guess since he sits on the Senate Intelligence committee (right?), he and several others have their hands full, with all the connecting-the-dots issues pertaining to the number one psycho sitting in the WH.
I don't know what the next few months will bring, but I think the democratic party has already sounded the "All Hands On Deck" alarm bells and it's going to take every bit of concentration and effort to oust this proverbial cancer from the WH and from the ranks of the GOP.
Again, I am putting all my weight behind a candidate who has the best interests of our country in terms of Economy, Labor, National Debt etc, their stand on reigning in the white collar crimes committed by big super-pac behaviors of Wall Street and the Banking industry, and bigger yet, I want a president who will back up Voting Rights issues and a contender who brings on board a team of vital political senators and representatives who can make sure voting rights, women's issues and affordable healthcare is available to everyone in our country. To me, after watching weeks of news about how the current WH resident and his team of crooked politicians and Supreme Court justices are upending and defanging time immemorial laws on the books that protect citizens of all stripes and marginalized members of society too, I seriously hope the general public is paying attention to every single detail presented via media outlets because each day we see a variety of a certain 'truth' which is hardly truthful at all, IMHO.
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Of The People, By The People, and For The People (that's what democracy is to me).