2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forget Sanders and Clinton for a moment. This is a symbolic schism that has been long brewing [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)has caused great harm to Labor. And while it pays oral tribute to the issues that they must be seen as supportive of, women and minorities, their policies have done more to harm those constituencies than any Repub could do IF the Dem Party had remained true to its claimed values.
Eg, the horrific Welfare 'reform' bill, deregulation of Wall St, the horrendous 'Tough on Crime' policies which supported the awful, 'immoral' (thanks Bernie) Private Prison industry profiting from legislation that clearly targeted minorities, which THEY WROTE.
There is a battle going on now within the Party because after decades of these awful, Heritage Foundation policies, things have only worsened for the very groups the Third Way uses to give themselves Dem creds but hurts tremendously with their own policies.
We have a chance to begin the turnaround, though it will be hard even if the people win, or we can continue to support what has destroyed the lives of so many millions of people, and not just here in the US.