The Democratic Party Is Moving Left – Except When You’re Not Looking

[BlackSand]

I don't think you read my post carefully enough .

Oh ... I read it ... And understood what you meant.
I just made an exculpatory point ... You are free to disagree with it.

I felt no need to argue with the idea you believe the government is controlled by corporations.
My point would simply be that as long as the people keep granting the federal government the power to sell them out ... That's most likely what's going to happen.

I am not all that enthusiastic to grant the federal government the power sell my interests up the river to any other bunch either.

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[Mac1958]

Democrat and actual liberal Dave Rubin, a married gay man and former member of The Young Turks, explains what has happened to the Left in four wonderfully clear minutes:
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[Votto]

Democrat and actual liberal Dave Rubin, a married gay man and former member of The Young Turks, explains what has happened to the Left in four wonderfully clear minutes:
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You may leave the left winged party, but you can't run from leftists.

It is global now.

It's like checking in at the Hotel California.

 

[Disir]

Meanwhile, less than two decades after 40 congressional Democrats voted for George W. Bush’s regressive tax cuts, not a single one backed Donald Trump’s – even though ten Democratic senators were staring down tough reelection bids in states that the GOP president had won.

By all appearances, the Democratic Establishment has finally concluded that a “stopped-clock socialist” is right a couple times a century – and that their party’s path out of the wilderness cuts away from Wall Street and toward the left.

Or, so it appeared until last week – when more than a dozen members of the Senate Democrats voted to advance a bill that would make it easier for banks to discriminate against black people, coerce mobile-home buyers into predatory loans, and pursue high-risk lending strategies that increase the likelihood of a future financial crisis.

You can pursue more thorough accounts of the legislation’s toxic flaws here and here. But the upshot is simple: In the name of providing regulatory relief to “community banks,” the bill empowers small lenders to abuse consumers; liberates medium-size banks (including ones large enough to have required bailouts ten years ago) from the heightened regulatory scrutiny that Congress had put on them after the 2008 crisis; and provides the nation’s largest banks with various loopholes that will make it easier for them to take bigger risks and evade regulatory oversight.

For these reasons, among others, the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the bill would significantly increase the odds of taxpayers having to bail out a failed bank in the near-future.

Thus, the fact that so many Democratic senators are eager to help Mitch McConnell pass it – and that Chuck Schumer has made no discernible effort to dissuade them from doing so – raises the question: Have progressives really changed the ideological orientation of the Democratic Party, or does Wall Street still hold the deed to blue America’s “big tent”?
The Democratic Party Is Moving Left – Except When You’re Not Looking


Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do. A platform is nonbinding.

And the GOP ran on repealing Obamacare and then voted to do so under Obama, knowing he would veto it, but then refused to do so under Trump, knowing he would sign it.

This is nothing new. Both parties are all about one thing, centralized control whether it be centralizing government or centralizing corporate America that funds those who run for government. Both work hand in hand to create an elite class of task masters which is why socialism is very attractive to them.

If socialism was attractive then we would see that reflected in policy. We don't.