Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Democratic Party Deserved to Die

 The Democratic Party Deserved to Die

"They said they were facing an economic apocalypse, we offered “retraining” and complained about their white privilege. Is it any wonder we lost? One after another, the dispatches came back from the provinces. The coal mines are gone, the steel mills are closed, the drugs are rampant, the towns are decimated and everywhere you look depression, despair, fear. In the face of Trump’s willingness to boldly proclaim without facts or evidence that he would bring the good times back, we offered a tepid gallows logic. Well, those jobs are actually gone for good, we knowingly told them. And we offered a fantastical non-solution. We will retrain you for good jobs! Never mind that these “good jobs” didn’t exist in East Kentucky or Cleveland. And as a final insult, we lectured a struggling people watching their kids die of drug overdoses about their white privilege. Can you blame them for calling bullshit? All Trump could offer was white nationalism as protection against competing with black and brown people. It wasn’t a very compelling case, but it was vastly superior to a candidate who enthusiastically backed NAFTA, seems most at ease in a room of Goldman Sachs bankers and was almost certain to do nothing for these towns other than maybe setting up a local chapter of Rednecks Who Code. We bet that Trump’s manifest awfulness would be enough to let us eke out a win. We were dead wrong. Here’s my version of the Democratic Party autopsy because, make no mistake, the old ways of the Democratic party must die.
Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings were obvious from the beginning to anyone who bothered to open their eyes."


The thing that kept Democratic party going for decades, was at least trying to look out for the little guy [you know the working class, and others] and when that got kicked to the curb, and they became more like Republicans then they became toast. Both parties more and more merged together in supporting the same agendas. Ask yourself why Obama continued ALL of Bush's wars?

 This may shock a few but I was a diehard Democrat for years until around 2001. Then I realized the party wasn't speaking for me anymore and there were other things I didn't agree with. When I became a Christian, that alone made the Democratic party no longer work for me. I still hated the Republican party but where was I going to go? I started at that point voting for as many independents and third party people as I could vote for, but none of them ever won. Sometimes the only thing I voted for that passed would be local measures like millages and other matters.

 The Libertarians while excellent on civil liberties and standing up against the police state disappointed me with their worship of Ayn Rand and strain of throw the disabled in the gutter, and their unicorn myths of free markets and banker worship. The Constitutionalists while excellent on ending the Fed and questioning the United Nations seemed gung-ho for false Dominionism and Theocracy and Old Testament edicts. Of course there too the disabled and the poor were not seen in good ways. The Green party while wanting to fix economic issues was more liberal, but at least didn't want to throw the poor in the gutter. Voting got really complicated for me and I probably have ended up with the strangest ballots in the history of America with blanks all over as I tried to vote for the most independent minded ones.

The Democratic party lost touch with the heartland of America.  I read some of the Wikileaks emails, even with random search words of my own and it was all globalism, overtly-antiChristian stuff--remember I am not a Dominionist, and out of touch technocrats to the max. They simply didn't care about average America Joe and Jane.  Bernie Sanders did somewhat because he did talk about the economic suffering of the average America but he was shoved aside for the mega-corporate choice. In fact while reading those emails, I was shocked reading how out of touch they all were with their gloating globalism and lust for empire, and simply not caring about the plights of everyday AmericansHillary's lust for war with Syria, I believe also scared the crap out of millions of Americans, because they knew Russia was pushing back. They imagined millions of mushroom clouds across the landscape. This got Trump voted in too.

Throwing a few social agenda crumbs, wasn't enough either when regular people saw their fortunes massively fall. Remember I do not support Trump and did not vote for him. Hillary was so awful though, what was there to vote for. I and my husband had discussions, where I told him, "She never talks about the economy, in her wealthy world, the status quo is just great. Democratic politicians kept talking about how great the economy was." I thought they were delusional. I voted for one local Christian Democrat woman, she seemed to care about the economy and freedom issues being more independent minded, I chose her for parting from the herd. Hillary didn't.

 I hate the Republican party. Tea Partiers make me puke. I don't have the hopes and dreams of Republican party. It's not God's party to me but the party of throw the poor in the gutter, destroy worker's rights, destroy disability and make more money for mega-corporations and the 1 percent. I left my last church over their blind Republicanism and overt praise for war. Yes that pastor preached constantly "Those who don't work, won't eat". I saw smug middle class and above people with the exception of one or two nice ones, who looked down at people like me.  

Trump will bring more of the regressive policies, that started this nation down the downward spiral, with Reagan. Why haven't people learned their lesson yet? The guy is against the raising of the minimum wage. Maybe he will end those horrible free trade deals and TPP, but there's far too much crazy horrible baggage to go with it.  His racist, misogynist and blundering ways scare many. Trump still supports the wars, and the police state. He has called for more law and order. In the nation that locks up the most people in the world, is that something we need more of? How about some freedom for once? We now have a guy who was a reality TV actor who owned casinos that had strip clubs in them.
 
I agreed with a few things Trump said about economy but with the whole picture could NOT support him. He got elected making false promises about the economy while Hillary Clinton acted like everything was just fine, and what a great "recovery" and probably two thirds of the country said, "What Recovery?" and went to vote for Trump.



I believe Trump feigned populist talk, and pretended to care about the poor and suffering of America to get elected. This talk got him elected even with the policies on paper outside a few rescinding of trade deals which will just take us back into more poverty and oppression. It's the same bait and switch game. The bankers want to keep their power, the globalists want the parade to continue. I believe they may even be taking things back to a bit of nationalism to get some war machines humming.



Anyhow this is a scary time in America. The main two parties have failed us. They were designed to, I suppose.

19 comments:

  1. I have never trusted politicians or much of the political process and haven't since my father coached me to steal yard signs from people who were voting for LBJ because he like Goldwater. (Yes I really am that old)But they may have pushed so hard this time that we have no choice but to push back. If I wanted to be treated like a petulant child because our politics differ, I would have stayed living with my mother.

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    1. Me either, the higher up they are the less I trust them too. That's sad your father wanted you to steal yard signs. Sad. Well I remember when Nixon was president :P so that makes me pretty old. I fear people are pushing back. It's crazy. Yeah narcs and politics, "Agree with me or else!"

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  2. Yeah my father told us to pilfer the yards of our neighbors while our mother made us shoplift potatoes at the grocers even though we had plenty of money. My mother allowed her junkie friends to do IV drugs with the bathroom door open. Then said nothing as these dudes force fed our pets whiskey and then drown them in the shower :trying to "sober" them up. Its no wonder my mother left our farm to my ex-wife because I certainly did nothing to earn it

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    1. That's sad. I think narc parents specialize in telling kids to become criminals but then if you got arrested for shoplifting that potatoe while alone, then watch out. Wow, on the animal abuse, holy crap! They love whatever they can get away with.

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  3. Gadzooks when you spell it out in black and white it really sounds bad. Good thing my mother denied everything to her grave that way it really had no effect on me and my sister because we all know if the perpetrator denies it's as good as if it never happened.

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    1. or so they like to think, mine would tell me direct, "nothing happened, you imagined everything"

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  4. Agree with me or you get 30 days.......
    in the electric chair.

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  5. As long as no one was stubbing their cigarette butts out on us we knew better than to make waves. My sister tried to tell people about my mother after her legal fiasco and my mother lied her way out of it. Back then kids were to be seen and not heard. When my sister asked are you guys crazy? What does it take for you guys to understand our mother is insane my father and my mother just packed up and drove away and left us at my grandmothers. If I had known how it was all going to end I wouldn't have tried so hard to hang around them. I was too stupid to under stand they didn't want me around any more than they wanted my sister around.

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    1. Yeah I got the feeling when I was young unless they were beating the crap out of you enough to put you in the hospital with broken bones, no one was going to care. It still shocks the hell out of me today, your mother could be on trial for MURDER! no less and it still didn't wake up the dumbathon enablers and excuse makers. I mean that's one who "got caught" to a certain extent you know....I know I tried to get people who hated me to care about me for a long time too. I took too long to figure out how despised I was until I got smart and walked.

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  6. Thanks for throwing your vote away and putting a rapist in charge.

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    1. Just about all of the elites are rapists, google EPSTEIN and LOLITA EXPRESS

      Oh come on. You know I don't support Trump.

      http://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/2016/10/authoritarian-america-path-to-tyranny.html

      I have stood up against war and the NDAA, which in this climate is NOT without risk.

      I could not vote for the other one in good conscience, that was my decision to make. I understand why others made other decisions.

      I have written against Trump on this blog how many times?
      http://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/search?q=Trump


      I don't think you get me because I am one of those people who realizes both parties are joined at the hip.

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    2. I have written against George Bush too.

      http://fivehundredpoundpeeps.blogspot.com/search?q=Bush

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  7. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/rise-of-the-davos-class-sealed-americas-fate

    "t this leaves out the force most responsible for creating the nightmare in which we now find ourselves wide awake: neoliberalism. That worldview – fully embodied by Hillary Clinton and her machine – is no match for Trump-style extremism. The decision to run one against the other is what sealed our fate. If we learn nothing else, can we please learn from that mistake?

    Here is what we need to understand: a hell of a lot of people are in pain. Under neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatisation, austerity and corporate trade, their living standards have declined precipitously. They have lost jobs. They have lost pensions. They have lost much of the safety net that used to make these losses less frightening. They see a future for their kids even worse than their precarious present."

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  8. http://davosclass.tni.org/

    Left has Davos class and Soros, Right has Koch brothers and their own big money groups.

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  9. Yes unknown. I have heard that peep has a big wheel in her kitchen that she spins each day to see who she will give a pass to. It's divided into several sections; rapist, murderers, ponzi scammers, and embezzlers. Looks like she added a category for dumb asses because she seems to be going easy on you.

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  10. Dear Emily, [or Otter] I have censored your posts. I did not vote for Trump. If you are going to go around abusing everyone who did not vote your way, you are a fascist. I have posted articles AGAINST TRUMP. I also did not deserve to be insulted for not caring about rape victims when I have been a victim of attempted rape twice in my life. I will not post any of your nasty posts again.

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