2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please stop with this b***shit that the Democrats are out of touch with the voting population [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)We lost touch convincing workers that unions are the way to better pay and job security. We lost touch when our politicians started taking big money from Republican donors (corporations and Plutocrats). We lost touch when we call our traitorous Democrats "spineless" instead of what they really are, sell outs. We lost touch when we rigged the Primary (DNC and Hillary) over Bernie (fact not opinion). We lost touch when we allow our MSM to ignore real stories and spew propaganda instead of truth. We lost touch when it became acceptable to have Wall Street insiders (who receive big bonuses before and after their government service) run our Treasury Dept., in EVERY Administration. We lost touch when a Democratic Administration did not go after the Wall Street banks for the fraud they committed in crashing the economy and their continued fraudulent schemes against Americans. We lost touch when we get distracted from the root cause of most of our problems, campaign bribes, Super PACs, dark money, and the revolving door, and instead focus on the symptoms caused by our campaign finance system.
How can we fix our country to prevent the next Donald Trump, the next time Republicans block a SCOTUS appointment,... if we refuse to even discuss the causes or even admit we have a problem?