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In reply to the discussion: So if the Democrats lose the senate. [View all]annominous
(68 posts)a democratic agenda passed. POTUS Clinton, to his neverending shame, helped the GOP get their agenda passed instead, as they ran him to ground over his sexcapades ... repeal of Glass Steagal, passage of NAFTA, privatization of many govt functions, no health care or health insurance reform, ... that's what Clinton got done. Does that sound like a democratic president to you?
This has been the gop (now the gotp) strategy since Bush1 lost to Clinton: when the gotp does not have the White House they do what they can (mostly in the senate with draconian requirements for supermajority to get anything done) to bring the country to its knees. When the gotp are in power, they loose the floodgates, some people prosper like never before on various bubbles, crumbs are allowed to fall off the tables of our "betters", and they focus focus focus on overturning the new deal, and every piece of progress that followed it.
That's their game plan, it is obvious. The gotp takes the long view. They besmirch democratic policies and politicians, and our bewildered democratic politicians have turned rightward to deflect their criticism, not recognizing that it's a game, and not recognizing it doesn't matter how they respond. Tomorrow, new day, same criticism. Life and death to us little people, a game to the gotp, who've been assured by their masters they will be taken care of. The masters of the gotp want to overturn the new deal so the workers can all starve like dogs in the street, once our useful working years are behind us.
It's a game for the gotp. They are psychos. The US grand experiment in democracy is a game for them, a game they have tired of.