Reply #60: Well said! [View All]

[Tinoire]

When the Democrats had the chance to stand up as a party for working class/lower middle class interests, they didn't. Thousands upon thousands of hard-working family farmers lost their farms or were forced to sell their land to agribusiness companies, but few Democrats seemed to notice. They answered the loss of manufacturing jobs with unproductive Japan bashing. They failed to stand up for union rights when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers. When Reagan put forth his 1986 "tax reform" proposal, they did nothing to stop middle class tax preferences (consumer interest deduction, charitable contribution deduction for non-itemizers) from being phased out in favor of corporate tax giveaways. Then, to top it off, they mostly backed, no, pushed NAFTA and globalized corporate "free" trade, which the people on the street see largely as their jobs going to China or Mexico.

It's like a family where the father has been raping the daughter. The daughter hates the father, sure, but she hates the mother even more for knowing about the incest and doing nothing to stop it.

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