The Liberal Elite Enabled Trump's Victory

[Magda Hassan]

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There is the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.

There is the corporate wing of the Republican Party.

Basically indistinguishable.

But the Democratic base is nothing like the Republican base.

Base Democrats stand up to the corporate wing on many occasions -- the Republican base never stands up to the corporatists in their own party, these GODavid, when you refer to "the elite" -- which elite?

Bullshit. The Dem 'base' are as stuck in their own mythology as the Republican base are in theirs. The Dem 'base' have allowed the corporate dominance of their party. They've toed the line always. They have not occupied their party. They have allowed others to do so. They get to go out and sign people up for voting and protest a bit, mostly against republicans. They can protest against Democratic policy too but fuck all will be done about most of it because they don't occupy their own fucking party. Their own party conspires against them. And they lie down and take it.

The Democratic base has a chance to influence the corporatists -- a chance! -- but with a Republican President we stand no chance.

Yeah we saw them stand up to them. They even sacked Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Then Hilary then hired her. Instead the leadership and the base unite and blame Wikileaks for bringing the corruption to light.

While it's true that Obama gave the National Security State the drone wars, the crackdown on whistle-blowers, the mis-adventures in Ukraine and Libya,
Obama out-maneuvered them to negotiate the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, nuke material from Iran, and began a diplomatic opening to Cuba.

None of those things would have happened under a Republican administration.

I could rave on at quite some length about the good things that Nixon did. But he was still a lying crook.

The USA is a Nazi wet dream?

Yes, because as we know the Nazis were famously tolerant of active protests.

They'd have loved Bernie and his people, eh?

Yes it is. Because the only game in town is who will manage capitalism better. A race to the bottom which all social democrats lead us to and of which the Dems lead the way. There are other ways to organise society but you wont be hearing a peep from the Dems. It's not their job. Nazis got comfortable job and pensions working in the US government.