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In reply to the discussion: Who is the Democratic Party's version of John McCain? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)decisions profoundly changed our nation so that half of all Americans are now far poorer than we were, our large middle class shrunk and new centimillionaire and billionaire classes usurping our national wealth and political sovereignty.
He entered congress in 1983 as one of a wave of conservatives elected at the end of the progressive New Deal era and has been trying to dismantle most progressive advances that serve the people and protect the people from predatory business through regulation ever since.
Why on earth anyone would choose to define McCain by 5 years as a prisoner of war 50 years ago and ignore his entire political career, I can't imagine. What he did then was admirable. But it does not make up for the declines in our incomes or overcome the massive election thefts that require us to outvote Republicans by 10% in order to more than break even in congress.
HOW could any DEMOCRAT imagine that misusing senatorial power in a relentless 25-year transfer of power and wealth from the people to wealthy ruling classes and to increasingly authoritarian governments was somehow a patriotic and nonpartisan act?
Trumpsters, yes. Their outrage at taxing all those deserving wealthy people more than you or I pay per year arise from their authoritarian loyalty to their leaders. Kissing up to their betters, wealthy people like McCain, and kicking down to their inferiors come very naturally to them. It's equality authoritarians don't understand or approve of, and they are the ones who sent McCain to DC and kept him there.
What on earth are you doing?