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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]BainsBane
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Tell me what is more conservative about the 2016 platform than 1992? When is this period when the Democratic Party met your standards?
There were a number of civil prosecutions of Bankers under Obama. What law or legal strategy should have been used to criminally prosecute them? No one has yet to answer that question. The candidate who argued that point for years couldn't answer the question. You'd think basic curiosity, if nothing else, would promote someone to consider the legal provisions for something they have complained about for years.
Thank goodness you're relieved of the horror of Obama as president and can finally get back to making America great again. Happy now?
The true "progressives" on JPR insist Trump can do no wrong. They couldn't be happier with the results of their hard fought efforts to move the country "left." Funny how that "left" just happens to resemble fascism. And obviously corporatism isn't the slightest concern, as they pretended. The billionaires populating the cabinet aren't a problem. Hillary giving speeches and earning money that rightfully belongs to white men, now that's a problem. Abolishing EPA, no big deal. Hillary wouldn't ban all fracking, so she was worse.
And what you are worried about now is that Obama didn't criminally prosecute bankers under laws you don't bother to name. Who cares if Trump has put a money launder as head of Commerce? Who cares if the rest of his appointments are intended to destroy the agencies they head? The real problem is something Obama didn't do in 2009, not that Trump is working to end regulation of Wall Street.
The OP is wrong on one major thing. What he calls the "extreme left" are not leftists at all. Not if they worked to install a fascist as presidency. Fascism is what fascism does.
There once was a true left in this country before it was systematically purged, deported, and imprisoned. None of them were stupid enough to believe the Democratic Party was the party of the left. It never has been. Not during the height of Jim Crow, not during the era of McCarthyism and the Cold War, or when dollar men from Wall Street and industry populated presidential cabinets--not during any of the good ole days so-called "leftists" long to return to.