One of the things I argue with my Democratic friends is how we have been utterly defeated. Republicans have had their way completely and we have to own that.
Consider this: Trump says he's not as crazy as he seems. He begins in the boonies because you lose if you start in the middle. Democrats start in the middle.
Republicans start in crazy-land. So even the seeming successes of the Democrats don't mean much, if anything, because everything has shifted so far to the right.
Democrats are now called socialists for proposing Reaganite stuff. But there's an unambiguous outcome and lesson, an extraordinary record of failure:
Tax cuts for the rich resulted in massive deficits, increased income inequality and no discernible benefit to the overall economy.
Deregulation and lax enforcement resulted in the Great Recession and an economy that feeds on injustice and insider trading.
Another holy dictum is that you give corporations anything they want and, again, that it will miraculously benefit everybody.
But corporations want nothing more than cheap labor. So, bye-bye, jobs. Bye-bye, happiness. The job growth has all gone to China.
Our foreign policy has no underlying morality and is a shambles. Our domestic policy has no underlying morality and is a shambles.
This is what Republicans have done for America. Democrats, hear me: we have actually been proven right. There's a clear course of action in this situation.
We shove it in their faces. And we don't stop confronting them with it until we see the whites of their asses heading for the hills.
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