08-23-2020, 09:59 AM
(08-23-2020, 02:50 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(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.
Quite the opposite is the case. Republicans keep the minimum wage down while giving huge tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. The result is that bosses make hundreds or thousands more $$ than what their employees make. This trend began under Reagan, and has continued, with some respite under Clinton and Obama. Republicans take away regulations that protect the people on the phony excuse of boosting business profits that will trickle down to everyone. They remove protections for unions and instead put up barriers to them, thereby bringing down wages and benefits to workers. They take away health care protections for the people so that big pharma and big medicine can make millions. They provide huge subsidies to outdated industries. They attack entitlements that we the people have more than paid for. Trump has been pursuing this false trickle-down policy to the max. It always fails, and it is entirely a Republican policy held for 124 years. I see no let up in this policy, contrary to what you say. He promised better trade deals, but delivered peanuts and his trade wars cost farmers millions. Trump is a non-populist. He is a fake. He is part of the elite, and he is an elitist, as are all Republican politicians.
One Skowronek cycle beginning with a Party ascendant under Reagan and ending with the same Party in severe decay with Donald Trump. The Skowronek cycle begins with one Party taking over and repudiating the assumptions of the other, negating the assumptions of the Party whose time is through in political domination as shown in a one-term President. Reagan broke stagflation by successfully lowering expectations of young adults so that people with marginally-useful college degrees would be sales clerks in department stores (but do well for their employers if not for themselves) or simply keep doing the low-paid work that they were doing to put themselves through college while the system shored up profits. People took social justice for granted and fell for the glitz. Reagan also baited the Left on culture... and since then the Left has become more diverse and conformist in a seeming paradox. Trump is Reaganomics served stale and incompetently, with an erratic, person-centered foreign policy and a deep descent into offensive vulgarity.
It is telling that the shopping mall that was the expression of Reagan glitz is now dying... which is a metaphor as well as a financial statement of failure. People have learned that vulgarity is not so much a part of prole life as it is obnoxiousness.
Quote:Democrats have opposite policies on all these matters, and stand with the people. They still take corporate money, but they also support campaign, wall street and lobbying financial reforms while Republicans oppose them tooth and nail.
The 'corporate money' may be getting the heebie-jeebies about Trump.
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.