Frank, my good man.
When Clinton declared the era of big government over, and then proceeded to make the largest cuts to welfare since its inception, and then proceeded to sell labor down river with NAFTA, one thing became clear: the Reagan Revolution was complete. The old Democratic Party was dead. Their relation to Labor was finally broken; they would now get the bulk of their money from big business. Game over. The Dems became GOP lite, trading their union jack for corporate bling. (follow the money my good sir)
How do we know the Left has left the building? Look at the economic teams of Clinton and Obama. Richard Rubin and Larry Summers are followers of Milton Friedman, i.e., emphatically not of the Left.
Look at the Wall Street bailout. Instead of breaking up too-big-to fail frankensteins (as a real Democrat would have done), Obama merely completed the Bush TARP. Not one person got fired or went to jail for the biggest crimes in American history. Do you know how many trillions the private sector burned in the unregulated derivatives market? Answer: over 100X the amount Fannie and Freddie burned. Your news sources don't cover this stuff because they work for the interests which own both parties. Their job is to distract you with the socialist boogeyman while they loot the treasury.
What about the recent Health Care bill? Surely this is Lefty socialism, right? Nope; instead of unwinding the market distortions introduced by lobbying, Obama is merely handing poor Americans into the jaws of a deeply anti-competitve monopoly.
As for illegal immigration . . .
You don't understand Reagan's vision when he hatched the blue prints for NAFTA (which was finally realized by Clinton). He wanted to open the borders between the U.S. and Mexico so capital could enjoy cheap raw material, zero regulations, and cheap labor markets.
Once you understand the thirst for cheap labor at the heart of Reagan's neoliberalism, you will understand the truth behind the illegal immigration issue.
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," Ronald Reagan said in 1984.
Ronald Wilson Reagan is the king of Amnesty for all time; just ask Mexicans who entered this country illegally prior to 1982. Study history.
(Frank, my dear good man, you've been lied to by talk radio and FOX news. Your party opens the borders for profit, then they complain about illegals for votes. They give the capitalist his labor, then they use those same illegals to scare people into the voting booth. Same thing with deficits. When your party is in power, they create bigger deficits than anyone -- then when they're out of power, they use those same deficits to scare you into the voting booth (so they can get back in power in order to rob you all over again). It's a game my good sir. It's a terrible, terrible game. You are being played.)
It's called the Reagan Shuffle. In the front of the house you drape yourself in a flag and claim to be protecting the nation from terrorism, while in the back you sell weapons to Iran. In the front of the house you complain about Communist China, while in the back you build your economy around cheap Chinese goods. Do you know what makes terrorist petro states stronger than anything else? The American Lifestyle, which consumes more oil than any other thing on God's green earth by a factor that would melt your brain. The U.S. doesn't consume more oil by accident. It consumes more oil because of political decisions, many of which go back to Reagan and the special interests which put him in power.
It's a game and the poor right wing voter has been so terribly, terribly played.
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