bendog
Diamond Member
That's the thing. I don't think there's any disputing that Obama and W bailed out the folks owning the mortgages and threw the homeowners under the bus, and that is probably the key fact to why voters were turned off of both parties establishment candidates. However, it remains to be seen whether Trumps tax and spending will help those folks.They see what progressives don't - that he is the president of the United States now and there is nothing anyone can do about that.And yet, McConnell and Ryan see a usefulness to him.No surprise there - Trump is a life-long liberal.I don't personally agree with the article, but I find it amusing that I'm a republican who believes in free trade, yet Trump is that antithesis to that, and closer who what the writer suggests the dems adopt. LOLBryan Dean Wright has penned two exceptional articles about his side of the aisle. He is essentially proposing a left-wing version of the Tea Party - which is what I've been saying the left needs to do for about 5 years now. We cannot afford to have any more Nixon's and Clinton's in politics. We need men and women of character who will respect the law and facilitate transparency.
The right started that process with the Tea Party and the results have been encouraging. Around 1,000 seats changed hands from Democrats to Republicans during Barack Obama's terms.
This is a reasonable, rational liberal who I would be happy to reach across the aisle and work with - and what he is proposing here has the potential to rebuild the Democrat Party. I hope the left will listen and act on his advice. The nation will be much stronger for it.
Why I am still a Democrat (even though I can't stand my party right now)
When the transition from the Bush to Obama administrations went down in the midst of the tits up economic meltdown, the economic “advisement” team of Paulson/Geitner/Summers was retained as if they would fix what they helped create. And in a way they did, for the substantial people at the expense of the middle and underclasses, via socialism. Goldman Sachs was Obama’s primary contributor, and at the very least, one of Hilary’s main contributors. There are already 5 Goldman Sachs higher ups in the Trump white house. And many still yet cling to partisanshit fantasy. Phuggin’ phenomenal.