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]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)If you are going to make a distinction between "pro-business" and what you call "corporatism"...
1. What makes you think that Secretary Clinton is one and not the other?
2. What makes you think that the majority of Democratic voters (who favor Secretary Clinton) is one and not the other?
3. How exactly do you intend to appeal to all the "corporatists" that you so obviously despise, but whose vote you need in the general?
You see, to me the answer is obvious. Groups whose ideology has lost in the marketplace of ideas don't actually give up on their ideology. Instead they create euphemisms. So just like racists rarely use racial epithets openly any more, old-fashioned communists now use the word "corporarist" as the epithet of their hatred, instead of "capitalist pig-dog" (which is what you'd hear in the 60s). But it's still filled with the hatred and reduction of the complexities of the world into black and white thinking, where there are the "good guys" (you - of couse), the "bad guys" (the majority of other Democrats), and of course the "sheeple" who will fall in line, somehow, because they're all deceived (not that they see your ideas bullshit, naturally). Oh, that and the perpetual need to create enemies because they're not "pure" enough: Judean People's Front vs the People's Front of Judea.
I even remember communists from that era saying they "weren't against small business", just as you're doing here, so the parallels are striking.
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