Re:Facebook admits: governments exploited us to spread propa...
by dragonwriter on Saturday April 29, 2017 @06:02PM
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> Democrats looked at the demographics and made an explicit decision to toss out blue collar (and now even white collar a la H1b) workers in favor of immigrants and corporations
Bill Clinton and the neoliberal DLC did, and it's been the source of a lasting divide within the Democratic Party (the party-in-government, not just the party-in-the-electorate) since; see, everything from the vote oj NAFTA through the 2016 Presidential primary and the subsequent DLC leadership campaign.
While the neoliberals are still the dominant faction within the Democratic party, they've lost ground to more strongly pro-labor progressives recently (compare 2008, when both leading primary contenders were soldily in the neoliberal faction to 2016) and there's plenty of reasons to think that will continue.
Bill Clinton and the neoliberal DLC did, and it's been the source of a lasting divide within the Democratic Party (the party-in-government, not just the party-in-the-electorate) since; see, everything from the vote oj NAFTA through the 2016 Presidential primary and the subsequent DLC leadership campaign.
While the neoliberals are still the dominant faction within the Democratic party, they've lost ground to more strongly pro-labor progressives recently (compare 2008, when both leading primary contenders were soldily in the neoliberal faction to 2016) and there's plenty of reasons to think that will continue.