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If we think about it Clinton wouldn’t have won if Ross Perot wasn’t getting so much of the Republican vote
That's a myth. Perot actually hurt Clinton more than Bush.
If we think about it Clinton wouldn’t have won if Ross Perot wasn’t getting so much of the Republican vote
Yeah short term, but in the long term it decimated the democratic party.. That was my point. It's good for the Democrats at teh very top of the heap, but everybody else suffers including the base. Eventually, you end up with candidates who can't even beat Donald Trump because the party organization is top-down.
Al From founded the DLC and also the Reagan administration started the right’s domination. Some of the stuff Reagan did had already been started by Carter, but he took it a step further and his rhetoric gave conservatism a new life.
Obama was the most left wing Democratic president we had since LBJ, which is pretty sad if you think about it. Carter started mass deregulation of the economy and increased military spending. And I don’t think we need to talk about Clinton.
American politics leaned more to the left after FDR. I think the Civil Rights Movement, what people felt was the failure of Keynesian economics due to stagflation and high unemployment, and Jimmy Carter’s perceived weakness allowed someone like Reagan to be elected and shift America to the right.
Let's stop the short and long term talk. If this model becomes consistently sucessfull that's awesome, but sociological, demographical and economic changes should make us sober enough to appreciate that nothing will last forever. These things eventually fall out of favour and fail. The secret is being agile enough to forecast the change and adapt to it.
BINGOWhen Clinton won, hadn’t the Democrats lost 5 of the last 6 presidential elections? It’s fine to hate Clinton, but lets not forget that we’d had 12 years straight of Republican presidents while running left wing dudes like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.
My bad, I guess we should have gone with SARAH PALINAnd picked Tim Kaine instead?
My bad, I guess we should have gone with SARAH PALIN![]()
Theres nothing wrong with Tim Kaine. He's a great senator with a strong track record and supports black issues.That's the best retort you can come up with? A completely irrelevant strawman?![]()
Theres nothing wrong with Tim Kaine. He's a great senator with a strong track record and supports black issues.
I didn't say he was chosen to represent black issues.Great senator and great choice for VP are not the same thing. Especially when the base you need the most is not feeling you or your platform. Why in 2015 did she think a white man as the representative to black people was a good idea? Especially after we had Obama?
The fact that there are people in the Democrat party spouting this flawed thinking is why it's so difficult for Democrats to win and also why Progressives are getting more and more of the base.
I didn't say he was chosen to represent black issues.
Theres nothing wrong with Tim Kaine. He's a great senator with a strong track record and supports black issues.
Yeah, all candidates have to be black. All of them.Hey look guys. I have the opportunity to pick an actual black person as VP who would definitely champion black issues. But instead I've decided to pick an old white man to do that. There's nothing wrong with that.![]()