I have tried to start debates from A to Z and I have realized the Liberal is lost. For 8 years he was told what a bad job W was doing and he was told how much better it would be if he was gone, "Mr evil"
The liberals lost their essence long before Obama. They have been running from the New Deal and Great Society since Carter ushered in the era of deregulation and Clinton passed NAFTA. They now get the majority of their money from Big Business, not Labor, which was has been dying since the late 70s. That is to say: there is no post-McGovern Left. (The Left opposed Johnson's war and officially disbanded as a real party. They hated the establishment - which destroyed them
politically because you can't win elections without a party apparatus. This is why they had nobody in Florida 2000, or Ohio 2004 - not one local office to organize the troops; whereas the Right had armies of workers in both states. The 60's anti-establishment Left refused to reproduce an FDR style Machine which played hardball for their agenda. This is why they produced feckless Southern Evangelical Conservatives like Carter, or anti-labor Wall Street lackeys like Clinton -- because they don't have a party machine. This is why Reagan was able to move the country so far Right. This is why the Left can't win any genuine political victories even when they posses both parties -- because they are filled with Conservative Blue Dogs. There is no centralizing, punitive party apparatus (like Grover Norquist) to punish defectors with primary challenges -- this is why so many Democratic Senators laughed at Obama's public option. The Right doesn't have this problem. They punish disloyalty severely. Every GOP Senator voted for Bush's Middle East policy
after it became unpopular and such a vote would cost them their seats. The GOP Party Machine,which is tightly controlled by the sitting GOP president, does not allow defectors -- even when voting for the president's agenda means the loss of one's career (as was the case in 2006 and 2008). On the other hand, Democrats have no party machine because they lack the same Stalinist penchant for top-down controlled outcomes. When the GOP says walk the plan for Iraq or the death of medicare -- you walk the plank. Period. (It's funny because the Right still does not understand how many swords Dick Chaney forced GOP senators to fall on. The GOP leadership does not tolerate disobedience)
Regarding Bush. He took the ideas behind a legislative Act passed in the 70s by Carter (CRA) and used them to stimulate a dead economy. Never before has a president so singularly used the housing market to stimulate the economy. Please watch this entire video (below). Listen to W's goals. He states a plan of lowering the lending restrictions and down payments for minorities. Bush launched the most aggressive home ownership agenda in American history. Why? Because the Reagan Revolution crushed the exorbitant wages of the entitlement-fed middle class in order to enable higher profits and more tax cuts. Therefore, the middle class entered the 2000's without solid jobs, wages, and benefits -- and with shrinking entitlements. MEANING: they didn't have enough money to consume (i.e., buy things, i.e., drive the economy), and their credit cards were maxed. Homes were the last ATM left. Listen to how Bush involves Fannie and Freddie. This is the real 9/11. Listen to the entire thing.
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If you get a chance, research Thatcher's "Ownership Society", which was a model for Bush's minority home ownership agenda. The theory is this: home owners vote conservative because they have more skin in the game. They now have a large taxable entity to protect against Big Government. They also support the Conservative "Tough on Crime" agenda for safer neighborhoods. Thatcher believed that the more private property one owned, the more likely you would vote Conservative. If you listen to Bush in this video -- and if you google his ownership society -- you will see undeniable links to Thatcher. Also, Rove was very clear about the dying GOP base of older
white voters. He warned that the coming shift in racial demographics would hurt the GOP down the line, especially with Latinos. This explains Bush's immigration policy. This is why Rove (who is brilliant) had such a clear agenda of expanding latino inclusion in the GOP. Political Parties that don't evolve in response to organic population changes die. Needless to say, Carter's CRA and the Liberal home ownership agenda had been in place for 30 years with no problems. When Bush put this agenda on steroids -- and completely removed lending and down payment restrictions, followed by deregulating the Credit Rating Agencies -- he did irreparable damage.
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