Demo-dummies
Since very few Democrats ever embraced the fundamental grievances of the OWS movement — in other words, opposition to a Wall-Street-dominated economy rigged in favor of the few–why in the world should we expect that the same Dems would embrace the movement now, per this article in Roll Call? Starting with Barack Obama, who kept his hands off the banks under the tutelage of fine ex-Rubinites like Summers and Geithner, both of them pining for the lost ’90s. To identify with OWS aims is to engage in self-indictment, and no one wants to do that…. It’s not too much to say that the relationship of mainstream Dems to OWS is similar to the relationship of mainstream Republicans to the tea party. The Dems would like to shoo away OWS as an uncomfortable reminder of their chronic betrayal of principles of equity; the Repubs would like to shoo away the tea party as an uncomfortable reminder of their chronic betrayal of principles of fiscal restraint…..(Picture credit: MikeNormaneconomics).
Novista says:
Principles? Hmph.
Back in the 19th C, the Democratic party had principles because they were classical liberal. Now, they’re a mirror image of what they once were with two major flaws:
1. They cannot do simple arithmetic
2. and their worship of Saint FDR.
When the housing bubble burst, they jumped on their horses and rode madly off on all directions at once, shouting in denial that they had anything to do with that. CRAven pussies, the lot of ‘em, full of good intentions with no road map.
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15th December 2011 at 8:28 pm