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They can see it, but they consider hypocrisy and corruption as just par for the course when it comes to government. Its the reason they are anti-government and
by unabridged 9y ago
They can see it, but they consider hypocrisy and corruption as just par for the course when it comes to government. Its the reason they are anti-government and want to "starve the beast". The democrats running people like hillary do nothing to dissuade them from this notion.
They also will put up with a lot to keep their white chrisitan pro-gun anti-abortion culture in control. But this is becoming less of an issue.
The democrats have a huge opportunity here to make their party inclusive of all the lower and middle class, abandon anti-gun and identity politics, and run candidates who are trustworthy. But the old guard democrats are still have a huge amount of power.
- ende 9y agoI’m not sure you can attribute that to some ‘old guard’ establishment wing of the party when perhaps the loudest proponents of the identity politics is the newer wave of Bernie supporters and coastal SJWs. Establishment democrats tend to be more flexible on the identity politics issues, but very conservative about preserving the old New Deal regime and resorting to industrial era pro-labor policies. There’s a strain of pragmatic centrists like Obama, but they tend to be not so great on civil liberties and hawkish on foreign policy. I don’t see the Dem coalition being able to assemble a ‘best of’ from among its various competing visions that doesn’t get impeded by those differences.