Interesting Vanity Fair article pointing out where the parties are going. here are some highlights... drones need to read this to understand who their team is really working for... .. "Yesterday’s primary handed victories to Trump and Clinton, and, if Michael Lind is right, Trumpism and Clintonism are America’s future. Lind’s point, which he made last Sunday in The New York Times, is that Trumpism—friendly to entitlements, unfriendly to expanded trade and high immigration—will be the platform of the Republican Party in the years going forward. Clintonism—friendly both to business and to social and racial liberalism—will cobble together numerous interest groups and ditch the white working class. Which might be fair enough, but Lind didn’t mention rich people. Where will they go? ... In a world of Trumpism and Clintonism, Democrats would become the party of globalist-minded elites, both economic and cultural, while Republicans would become the party of the working class. Democrats would win backing from those who support expanded trade and immigration, while Republicans would win the support of those who prefer less of both. Erstwhile neocons would go over to Democrats (as they arealready promising to do), while doves and isolationists would stick with Republicans. Democrats would remain culturally liberal, while Republicans would remain culturally conservative. ... The combination of super-rich Democrats and poor Democrats would exacerbate internal party tensions, but the party would probably resort to forms of appeasement that are already in use. To their rich constituents, Democrats offer more trade, more immigration, and general globalism. To their non-rich constituents, they offer the promise of social justice, which critics might call identity politics. That’s one reason why Democrats have devoted so much attention to issues such as transgender rights, sexual assault on campus, racial disparities in criminal justice, and immigration reform. The causes may be worthy—and they attract sincere advocates—but politically they’re also useful. They don’t bother rich people. It’s a costly arrangement. The more that Democrats write off the white working class, which has been experiencing a drastic decline in living standards, the harder it is for them to call themselves a party of the little guy. The more that the rich can frame various business practices as blows to privilege or oppression—predatory lending as a way to expand minority home ownership, outsourcing as a way to uplift the world’s poor, etc.—the more they get a pass from Democrats on practices that hurt poorer Americans. Worst of all, the more that interest groups within the Democratic Party quarrel among themselves, the more they rely upon loathing of a common enemy, Republicans, in order to stay united.
The American Society of Psychiatric Shrinks (ASPS) just did an interesting study on people who take political parties seriously. Unfortunately they compared them to those of us that believe in UFO's (and there is a lot more evidence UFO's are real than there is political parties are real) but it is a very interesting study on mental illness if you are at all concerned you may be suffering.
I may or may not be suffering a bit at the hands of the establishment but I am paranoid these parties are killing the future for our kids. I see this as a binary thing. Either those of us who realize the establishment politicians are crooks purchased by the cronies...Or you really think the democrat or republican politicians in Washington are trying to do whats good for vast majority of tax payers.
Your kids, most likely... are TOTALLY FUCKED! The only chance we have at "salvaging America" is for 50 Million armed protesters to storm the streets. Doubt it will happen.
It's interesting and ironic that these new orthodoxies of the two parties will represent almost a total 180 degree change from their historical roles. Democrats were always the party of the working class, and represented social conservatism for the most part. They had the "Solid South" as their bulwark and enthusiastically supported racial segregation. The Republicans were the party of the rich and powerful, the global elites and country clubbers. They were the party of big business, but were generally socially progressive. They pushed civil rights bills. Ike sent troops into the South to enforce court-ordered integration. They traced their lineage back to Abe Lincoln and were proud of it. The republicans are being transformed from the bottom up. Their leaders and party establishment are far out of step with their base. The establishment, the elected members, the party hacks and their army of consultants and media personages see themselves getting tossed out into the cold and are in a panic.
yes... and my thesis is that this transformation took place because it used be the bankers vs the business owners... bankers were with democrats... hence strong dollar. business were with republicans... hence weaker dollar. but then our tax laws, and our business decided to send our jobs and IP overseas. leaving the bankers in charge of both parties. the bankers in a very greedy manner have chosen to extract most of the wealth from america... and only the some of the small businesses and taxpayers are left to fight them. The base of the Republican parties basically needs a new party. its really the tax payers vs the establishment. right now the establishment owns both parties. My serious question is... is this history repeating itself. One only needs to have read Shakespeare and know what causes world wars to start to see the tinder. My advice to the cronies is to back off and bring some jobs and assets back here. Or the world truly will be screwed. Many americans still have a backbone and are heavily armed. I don't want to see it come to that. The cronies need to compromise. I know they see it. I know that his why they bought all those bullets. But why force the issue. Just end this extraction crap and bring some jobs back.
False dichotomy. There are populists on both sides, the Sanders socialists and the Drumpf teabaggers.