Mark, I totally agree about the Clinton and Obama administrations --- (I
even wrote about both) ---
THAT is why I really do think that the Biden Administration policies are a
departure ---
one interesting example --- The head of the FTC Lina Kahn has freaked out
the corporate dems who are demandi
The flaws in the policies of FDR and Truman are not arguments for
accepting them in the Clinton-Obama-Harris incarnation of the Democratic
Party. They're apples and oranges . . . and actually rather rotten apples
and moldy oranges at that.
Both Build-back-better and negotiations over drug prices
but I do think the Build Back Better bill and MEdicare negotiating drug
prices and the behavior of the FTC and the NLRB indicates the end of
neoliberalism domestically -
(and of course I could be wrong)
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:02 PM Michael Meeropol
wrote:
> even the New Deal was imperialist
even the New Deal was imperialist --- (Roosevelt used the Atlantic Charter
to basically "take over" the British Empire stealthily ) ---
(the New Deal was also racist as Hell in execution of policies )
and Truman launched the COLD WAR and KOREA and even made initial steps to
support the Fr
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io wrote:
>
> another note of possible interest: last time an incumbent president
> decided not to run for re-election and the VP stepped up, Hubert
> Humphrey described his perspective as "the politics of joy"
>
> The Specter of Hubert Hump
another note of possible interest: last time an incumbent president
decided not to run for re-election and the VP stepped up, Hubert
Humphrey described his perspective as "the politics of joy"
The Specter of Hubert Humphrey Haunts Kamala Harris
A Democratic convention in Chicago isn’t the summer’s
There were studies back in 2016 indicating that the average Trump voter was
worth somewhat more than the average Clinton voter. I suspect the skewered
numbers in terms of race had much to do with that, but the ideas that
workers are particularly inclined to Trump seems dubious. The demographics
o
minor note: Jesse Jackson's "DLC" was "*Defenders* of the Leisure Class"
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 8:49 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io wrote:
> While there is little doubt that cynical, fear-based appeals to the worst
> impulses of working-class whites are an important part of the story, if we
>
>
> the only "good" news is that TRUMP''s success has FORCED the Dems to abandon
> neoliberalism -
At least in their rhetoric. The Nation carried this: "Sadly, the one area
where there has been no significant change—a foreign policy based on the
presumption that America is the “indispensab
Hopefully they'll "accommodate the progressive wing of the party" more than
they have over their continued support to the genocide against Gaza where
Biden/Harris just sent another $20 BILLION of weapons to their murderous
friends!
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:07 AM Michael Meeropol via groups.io w
agree with Dennis completely --- the only "good" news is that TRUMP''s
success has FORCED the Dems to abandon neoliberalism --- If it hadn't been
for Manchin, the entire Build Back Better Bill might have passed with is
basically Bernie's domestic program ...
The Democratic Party establishment havi
While there is little doubt that cynical, fear-based appeals to the worst
impulses of working-class whites are an important part of the story, if we
look at the content of Trump’s appeals to working-class voters, we see that
a narrow focus on the darkest aspects of Trump’s rhetoric belies consisten
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