Post #4051180
2026-07-24 01:34 UTC
The #Democratic Party learned all the wrong lessons from Ronald Reagan, and ever since the 1980 soft coup d'etat that installed the Republicans' senile cowboy actor in the White House as the hand-puppet of a massive assortment of right-wing propagandists and Heritage Foundation bureaucrats, the Democrats have faithfully chased after the perfectly "triangulated" imitation of just the nice parts of GOP fascism.
Bill Clinton was their first success, their answer to Reaganite optimism, and he only won because of H. Ross Perot playing spoiler.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 01:39
The "Clinton Era" felt good for a little while but it was for the same treacherous reason Reaganism felt good to the GOP cultists: the Clintons were up to their eyebrows in corporate corruption and thus their era of plenty was harmful to the nation. The U.S. economy was focusing even more narrowly on non-productive industries, ways of making vast amounts of money that fulfilled no genuine human need. The #Democrats of the 1990s were foolish enough to think they'd pulled a fast one on the GOP by tying themselves irrevocably to Big Tech, flaunting their chumminess with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. (cont'd)