Y'ALL
you can vote for Biden in the primaries and November and still protest his shitty policies NOW.
corporatist democrats aren't your friends. they're neoliberal machiavellians who sold us out and killed FDRs' New Deal.
https://monthlyreview.org/2001/04/01/neoliberalism-from-reagan-to-clinton/
don't be an ahistoric buffoon screaming "BUT TRUMP IS GONNA WIN".
45+ years of neoliberal Reaganism wouldn't have gotten us here w/o neoliberal democrats' complicity.
so if we have no choice but to vote for corporatists, we MUST protest them 24/7
a lot of y'all need a refresher on how abjectly bad Clintonism was for the rest of us, so here's a good TL;DR based on one of the thousands of books published about Clinton's 8 years in office:
"How Bill Clinton’s Presidency Changed American Capitalism – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/how-bill-clintons-presidency-changed-american-capitalism-lichtenstein-interview/
Biden description as a centrist is but a euphemism: this is the man that called Storm Thurmond his Capitol Hill "dad".
but his style of machiavellism makes me adept to reacting to protest. remember that.
"Reaganism initiated a new “social contract” – according to which the handful at the top benefit egregiously, while everybody else works more and gets less."
[...]
"Bill Clinton [...] didn’t just bring his fellow Democrats along as he set about promoting Reaganism. He changed them fundamentally; causing them to make the Reagan agenda their own."
just remember: there is no #Bidenomics without #Reaganism and #Clintonism.
"What is Clintonism? - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/25/what-is-clintonism/
"The book begins with the rise of the DLC, which at its start, you observe, is very much a group of white male Democrats, mainly from the Sunbelt states. They’re united by a strong distaste for the politics of welfare liberalism, for the New Deal, and especially for the Great Society programs. What specifically is their critique of the postwar Democratic Party...?"
"The Damning Legacy of Clintonism | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/lily-geismer-left-behind-qa/
@blogdiva
The Nation article is also a book review of the opinion of one person who gets government history wrong by parroting the GOP mantras about how everything is Clinton's fault. "Sunbelt States" my arse--the accurate term for the pols in those states is "Dixiecrat", a political animal not to be confused with other Democrats and in fact describes many in the Republican Party.
Nixon et seq were beneficiaries of appeals to the Dixiecrat including the election of southerner Jimmy Carter, because he was a southerner.
FAIL
@blogdiva
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Dixiecrats migrated over to the Republican Party and the new Democratic Party was considered such because of growing Black membership. Cowtowing to Dixiecrats was essential to win elections because there were too damn many of 'em and Blacks were a minority.
And that's why a Dixiecrat-dominated Congress has no business getting swept under the rug like that. There's zero excuse for the political fiction published by those rags.