Reply #86: Tzadzaaaam: my first decidedly inflammatory post on DU [View All]

[BelgianMadCow]

as I got the feeling in this thread that some measure of REALITY is urgenttly needed (inspired by Chavez, bite me) :

Democrats : one of two parties ruling the US of A, complicit through things such as NAFTA and the abandoning of the Fairness Doctrine to the current very bad state of affairs and the total hollowing out of the middle class and the sucking out of the lower class to the advance of corporations. Even if among them are numerous and noteworthy examples of leadership FOR the people, I strongly suspect they too are bought and paid for to a (too) big extent by "special interests".

Socialists : parties in Europe who have the biggest share in the EU parliament after the Christian / central parties, who represent the working class and whose opposition to several "liberalisation" ideas has kept our social security systems in place.

In many of the large traditional production industries, the socialist unions are by far the biggest and have very considerabe power. I do not like it when they try to hold on to every acquired right, as I do think we in the west need to consider the enormous difference in living standards and wages with other production sites in the world. But they fight for the people and their jobs and often are the only check on the big corporations.

So I'd say that the socialists over here are a big part of the reason why we don't have as many hollow shells of production sites that got outsourced as I hear you do in the US.

bmc

edited for typos and included "too big extent"