2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It goes like this. Republicans and their corporate lawyers drew up a scheme to actually PAY companies to send the country's manufacturing jobs overseas and Bill Clinton signed it. These factory jobs were supposed to be replaced by high paying, high tech jobs. This is why whenever the subject of jobs comes up you will hear a democrat pivot to education and they will claim workers need to "train for the jobs of the 21st century". This blames the workers for their own job loss. Meanwhile all of those promised high tech jobs went to India. (Oops!)
Now the democrats are trapped by the rules of the game in DC to defend NAFTA which was originally a REPUBLICAN disaster. This has also led to having to argue with unions which are a major source of campaign money while bragging that they can raise more money from Wall Street than the Republicans.
Now we are in a place where members of the democratic party are talking about "the working class" as if it's beneath them.
And Liberals?
Today's crop of Democrats can play "kick the hippie" with the best of them.