Post #4051321
2026-07-24 01:39 UTC
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.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 01:42
Look how well THAT worked out for them. It's been a living nightmare, the successful colonization of the #tech sector by #conservatism (i.e. Christofascism basically) but watching the Democrats flailing around uselessly has had its macabre entertainment value. The mainstream Dems seem to have no other strategy than to keep double and trebling and quadrupling down on the stale Clintonite methods. They weren't popular at the time. I voted for Bill Clinton. I tried to make myself believe he was a good change of pace. But no hep Democratic voter really liked that he was obviously so smarmy and superficial and oozing with corruption. (cont'd)