(08-22-2020, 08:49 PM)CH86 Wrote: Sorry PBrower but democrats have fully embraced the corporate elites while the the GOP is becoming less and less Pro-corporate by the day. It is the GOP that is emerging as the populist party, not the DNC. The DNC becoming a pro-governing classes political party.
...and what says that conservatives of the old sort aren't getting scared of the erratic behavior of Donald Trump? At least to them the Democrats, who have fully endorsed the concepts of rule of law, separation of powers, and checks and balances may offer something inconvenient for profit maximization -- but not something likely to spiral into despotism and war?
Big Business got it right on COVID-19 when Trump didn't!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.