(February 6, 2019 at 2:57 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 6, 2019 at 2:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote: This is one thing we can agree on.
I wonder how many napkins his writers used to write it. Trump would have done better with a "See And Say The Orange Turd Says".
Um, no this is misleading.
The biggest part of our decline had NOTHING to do with democrats AS VOTERS, but Reagan successfully busting the air traffic control unions. That broke the will of the rust belt voters. What this article is saying is true, but not the way you think.
Our politicians lost the narrative, and instead of fighting back, bent over to compete with him. And since Reagan, between voter apathy on our part, and gerrymandering on the GOP part, that forced our politicians to play by their narrative.
Our politicians back then gave up, that is not the same as what AOC is doing now.
If both parties thought like FDR or Teddy, back then, Reagan never would have won. But only one party started that decline, and that was the GOP. The only thing you can blame democrats for is giving up and too much compromise at that time.
The parties flipped during the 60s and 70s on social and economic issues, and that ended with Reagan starting our decline.
So you started out with an off topic rant about Reaganomics, and I gave you an interesting article about Democratic complicity.
Then you move the goalpost to a rant about Reagan's union busting. Well, the Dems also turned their backs on organized labor.
I know that you didn't read the article that I gave you. You really should read it.
And you cant read.
I explained to you why that "complicity" happened.
WE GAVE UP as voters. That in turn forced our politicians to play by the GOP narrative and compete with them.
To say Trump is good for us is FUCKING BULLSHIT PERIOD!
He is not Lincoln's GOP or even Teddy's GOP. And there is no way Reagan could get nominated on today's GOP ticket regardless.
The GOP is the party of billionaires. The party of greed. They have no interest in helping anyone but oil companies and Walmart class.
What you have been seeing recently since the "occupy movement" is an awakening by the left and labor that has slowly since started to force our politicians to grow a backbone.
