Yes, I love how with no other thing do these people understand that THEY, not Jill Stein or Bernie Sander or Russia are why they lose. A minimally functional DNC would be CLEANING Trump’s CLOCK right now, his coalition’s in chaos, his policy proposals are unpopular, the DNC has a lack of economy issue polling problem I haven’t seen in FOREVER, which speaks to people thinking “You’re the FDR party, and the party who stopped the Nazi genocide, can’t you save us now?” And the answer is MORE CHENEY!!! And MORE GENOCIDE!!!
The New Deal was an attempt to save capitalism from the threat of socialist revolution. The Great Depression left the working class in grave financial straits, and socialism was a foreign & domestic threat. This was before the socialists were purged from labor unions, before the Cold War and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Democratic Party didn’t make concessions to the working class out of the kindness of its heart.
Over decades, those temporary concessions have eroded along with any threats to the capital order: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise the US’s neocolonial hegemony; the end of history. The Democratic party is to the right of Reagan now, and some in the Republican party are itching to remove even the trappings of democracy.
Yup, social democracy and unions were concessions capitalism stopped making once there was no competing ideology after the collapse of communism (current Chinese “Communism” isn’t even Fascism as that still had SOME social benefits). I do still think our best hope is do what we did with FDR which is “I don’t care about your shitty party, give us material long term policy concessions, and then we can talk”
Yes, I love how with no other thing do these people understand that THEY, not Jill Stein or Bernie Sander or Russia are why they lose. A minimally functional DNC would be CLEANING Trump’s CLOCK right now, his coalition’s in chaos, his policy proposals are unpopular, the DNC has a lack of economy issue polling problem I haven’t seen in FOREVER, which speaks to people thinking “You’re the FDR party, and the party who stopped the Nazi genocide, can’t you save us now?” And the answer is MORE CHENEY!!! And MORE GENOCIDE!!!
The New Deal was an attempt to save capitalism from the threat of socialist revolution. The Great Depression left the working class in grave financial straits, and socialism was a foreign & domestic threat. This was before the socialists were purged from labor unions, before the Cold War and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The Democratic Party didn’t make concessions to the working class out of the kindness of its heart.
Over decades, those temporary concessions have eroded along with any threats to the capital order: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise the US’s neocolonial hegemony; the end of history. The Democratic party is to the right of Reagan now, and some in the Republican party are itching to remove even the trappings of democracy.
Yup, social democracy and unions were concessions capitalism stopped making once there was no competing ideology after the collapse of communism (current Chinese “Communism” isn’t even Fascism as that still had SOME social benefits). I do still think our best hope is do what we did with FDR which is “I don’t care about your shitty party, give us material long term policy concessions, and then we can talk”