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The vociferous pro-capitalism faction here should cool their jets about the liberal nanny state for a moment and start thinking seriously about what's happening
by beat 8y ago
The vociferous pro-capitalism faction here should cool their jets about the liberal nanny state for a moment and start thinking seriously about what's happening here, lest things far worse (in their eyes) than this bill start happening.
The American public is angry. They feel, and justifiably so, that someone has been screwing them for decades - that the lot of ordinary working people has gotten worse, while economists and the media rave about the booming economy and the rich are clearly getting richer. This anger expressed on both sides of the political aisle in the form of quasi-third party insurgency candidates - Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. They might have radically different solutions, but they touched the same nerve. "Make America Great Again" is exactly how they feel - that something terribly wrong has happened to America, and radical steps are needed to fix it.
The "neoliberals" of the center-left Democrats are discredited and in eclipse. The way candidates get ahead right now is through loud denounciations of corporate greed. And while Trump's xenophobic demogogue act works for the moment at distracting the anger away from Wall Street (for his supporters anyway), it wouldn't be that hard for the next demogogue to target that anger at Wall Street instead.
And if that happens, Senator Warren's bill might be cold toast compared to the revolution that comes.