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Such a shame reading news like this. I’d like to point out that this isn’t really even a conservative vs liberal view anymore, regarding corporate greed, corpor
by Top19 9y ago
Such a shame reading news like this. I’d like to point out that this isn’t really even a conservative vs liberal view anymore, regarding corporate greed, corporate malpractice, etc. Even Steve Bannon has said this.
While we definitely will always have culture battles to fight between both parties, the reality is the Republican Party was essentially “captured” by the Koch Brothers starting in the 1980’s, and it made it drastically shift to the right on corporate issues. The Tea Party, which in the end is a force for good (really shocked me to write that), was able to internally destroy the Republican Party and thus undo most of it’s absurd corporate agenda, but by that time Citizen’s United has passed and perhaps half of the corporate shills or so fled to the Democratic Party, which is now also captured.
In conclusion, it will be the extreme wings of both parties, Tea Party on the right and Socialists on the left, that will save the economic system, but this solution wasn’t ideal and there could have been a better way.
- beepboopbeep 9y agoThe tea party was an infection that just inflamed the worst aspects of the GOP. That frothing, screaming mass of ignorance was wielded like a big fat mace by the GOP to completely disrupt and destroy precedent and civility. It turned into the fascistic monster it is today. The Democrats are simply the party of miscellaneous now.
- Oxitendwe 9y agoI found this comment very fascinating and would love to learn more about the recent history of the two major American political parties, do you have any suggestions for literature on this topic?
- Top19 9y agoThis book by a couple of very good liberal sociologists (whose other work I also recommend): The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005PS3CFM https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005PS3CFM The most fascinating part was probably that Tea Party individuals actually adopted and modified a lot of liberal tactics, specifically those from the book “Rules for Radicals”. Now we see a trend where liberals and people like the Democratic Socialists of America are adopting those modified tactics BACK INTO the Democratic Party.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe Tea Party was itself a Koch funded operation, and has not, in fact, destroyed the Republican Party’s corporate crony capitalist agenda (which has been highly visible under Trump, even when Bannon was near the center of power) though that movement and related develooments create liud, highly visible distractions behind which Republicans continue to advance that agenda. > agenda, but by that time Citizen’s United has passed and perhaps half of the corporate shills or so fled to the Democratic Party, which is now also captured. The height of pro-corporate domination of the Democratic Party was before Citizens United; the neoliberal wing of the party, while still dominant, has been losing ground for some time. You seem to echo a lot of the propaganda that Bannon likes to put out, but you shouldn't mistake it for fact.
- gertef 9y agoWhat does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?