Posted by pennsylvania on 5/23/2016 8:07:00 PM (view original):
jt7king - it's not a socialist agenda - it's an alternative to insanity -
CAUTION - POLITICAL COMMENTARY FOLLOWS:
It's similar to those individuals living in inner cities who have continually voted for Dems over the last 60 years and wonder why it is that EVERY inner city in America is fraught with crime, drugs, public school's that can't teach kids to read and write - let alone graduate -- rampant poverty and unemployment---- and yet those same people do the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER --- AND NOTHING CHANGES - including their ******** and moaning over the very things they continue to request by voting for MORE OF THE SAME.
INSANITY at it's finest.
So let's break this down, because this is my wheelhouse.
We have not voted for Dems for 60 years. as a country, we have had some republican and some democratic administrations.
1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - "Anyone who does not embrace the New Deal does not have a place in American politics." How's that for a Republican?
1960 - 68 - Kennedy/LBJ - OK. Whatever Kennedy tried to was overruled by LBJ's 5 years. I'm pretty sure that the passing of the Civil Rights Act was political.
1968-76 - Nixon/Ford
1976-80 - Jimmy C. Nope, Americans are too macho for a Georgian peanut farmer.
1980-1992 - these guys.
1992-2000 - Neoliberal. NOT a real progressive. Basically just a centrist in sheep's clothing
2000-2008 - THIS guy.
2008-2016 - Even though we THOUGHT we were voting for a real progressive, instead we got Clinton 2.0.
So.......what does every single one of these guys from 1980 to the present have in common?
They all instituted or maintained tax cuts for the rich. And you wonder why income inequality has never been greater.
That's why #bernieorbust