Over the past forty years, the Democratic Party has been transformed and weakened, from the donor top down, by meritocratic, neoliberal Boomers who radically broke with the FDR traditions of the old Dem party based on solidarity with the working and lower classes of all races in order to get as rich as possible. These Dem neoliberals priā¦
Over the past forty years, the Democratic Party has been transformed and weakened, from the donor top down, by meritocratic, neoliberal Boomers who radically broke with the FDR traditions of the old Dem party based on solidarity with the working and lower classes of all races in order to get as rich as possible. These Dem neoliberals prided themselves on being "socially liberal but fiscally conservative." That meant that in post-60s American they loved being bobos, college-educated elites, often risen from below because of college, who gloried in feeling morally superior to white working-class deplorables because the grads were totally PC on gender, race, and LGBTQ+ rights, which never cost any of them a dime in new taxes to support. The fiscal conservatism of these yuppies of all ages was a matter primarily of backing globalist Dem servants of Wall St. and corporate America, like Clinton and Obama, who were by definition de facto enemies of the working class because they backed the same globalistic political economy that gutted our industrial base by shipping it to China etc. as Reagan and the Bushes. Needless to say, the stock profits and exploding corporate salaries produced by globalization were hugely responsible for the massive wealth gains of our so-called "meritocrats" in both parties. So the second part of the "fiscal conservatism" of these nouveaux riches Dem yuppies (of whom the rise of the Clintons and the Obamas are almost parodically perfect examples) was naturally an aversion to tax increases almost identical to that of their young Republican twins, who only differed from Dem yuppies in not constantly virtue signaing about their devotion to "rights" for the "oppressed" which they could conveniently support tax-free. Long ago, during the Clinton presidency, the Rust Belt got wise to the ways in which yuppie Dem elites like the Clintons were constantly redefining "liberalism" as "helping" women, blacks, and the LGBTQ+, while these same yuppie Dems were as busy screwing over the American working class, mostly white demographically, with globalization as the Republicans any day. NAFTA said it all. Started by Bush, passed by Clinton. Republican Boomers like Trump have been more than happy to exploit the Dem yuppies' betrayal of the white working class by wooing them with incessant culture wars about (what else?) women, blacks, and the LGBTQ+. This was great for distracting white workers from the fact that Republican yuppies were waging exactly the same economic war against the workers Dem yuppies were, and conning white workers into believing only Dem PC yuppies were the "elites" screwing them over economically, when in fact Republican yuppies were just as much class enemies economically of the white workers as Dems any day. Let's hope that younger Dems follow Bernie's lead in trying to get the Dems back to their economic FDR roots as the friends of workers and the poor of all genders, races, ethnic groups, and sexual preferences, as well as being the enemies of the legacy of the Boomer yuppie meritocratic "malefactors" of globalization in both parties. We need a united front of young, progressive FDR ecomic liberals and the workers of all types they are equally fighting for economic justice for. That could unite America again, as it was under FDR, and help the country be as prosperous and powerful for all our citizens as possible. United we stand; divided against China and the rest we fall.
Over the past forty years, the Democratic Party has been transformed and weakened, from the donor top down, by meritocratic, neoliberal Boomers who radically broke with the FDR traditions of the old Dem party based on solidarity with the working and lower classes of all races in order to get as rich as possible. These Dem neoliberals prided themselves on being "socially liberal but fiscally conservative." That meant that in post-60s American they loved being bobos, college-educated elites, often risen from below because of college, who gloried in feeling morally superior to white working-class deplorables because the grads were totally PC on gender, race, and LGBTQ+ rights, which never cost any of them a dime in new taxes to support. The fiscal conservatism of these yuppies of all ages was a matter primarily of backing globalist Dem servants of Wall St. and corporate America, like Clinton and Obama, who were by definition de facto enemies of the working class because they backed the same globalistic political economy that gutted our industrial base by shipping it to China etc. as Reagan and the Bushes. Needless to say, the stock profits and exploding corporate salaries produced by globalization were hugely responsible for the massive wealth gains of our so-called "meritocrats" in both parties. So the second part of the "fiscal conservatism" of these nouveaux riches Dem yuppies (of whom the rise of the Clintons and the Obamas are almost parodically perfect examples) was naturally an aversion to tax increases almost identical to that of their young Republican twins, who only differed from Dem yuppies in not constantly virtue signaing about their devotion to "rights" for the "oppressed" which they could conveniently support tax-free. Long ago, during the Clinton presidency, the Rust Belt got wise to the ways in which yuppie Dem elites like the Clintons were constantly redefining "liberalism" as "helping" women, blacks, and the LGBTQ+, while these same yuppie Dems were as busy screwing over the American working class, mostly white demographically, with globalization as the Republicans any day. NAFTA said it all. Started by Bush, passed by Clinton. Republican Boomers like Trump have been more than happy to exploit the Dem yuppies' betrayal of the white working class by wooing them with incessant culture wars about (what else?) women, blacks, and the LGBTQ+. This was great for distracting white workers from the fact that Republican yuppies were waging exactly the same economic war against the workers Dem yuppies were, and conning white workers into believing only Dem PC yuppies were the "elites" screwing them over economically, when in fact Republican yuppies were just as much class enemies economically of the white workers as Dems any day. Let's hope that younger Dems follow Bernie's lead in trying to get the Dems back to their economic FDR roots as the friends of workers and the poor of all genders, races, ethnic groups, and sexual preferences, as well as being the enemies of the legacy of the Boomer yuppie meritocratic "malefactors" of globalization in both parties. We need a united front of young, progressive FDR ecomic liberals and the workers of all types they are equally fighting for economic justice for. That could unite America again, as it was under FDR, and help the country be as prosperous and powerful for all our citizens as possible. United we stand; divided against China and the rest we fall.