Thatcher had more in common with Reagan era conservative politics than what the DNC wants you to believe do these days. The Dems want to tax the rich, fund social programs, and not privatizing everything. Problem is, they need functional majorities in Congress to reverse a lot of the Reaganomics / neoliberalism crap from the last 40 years.
The DNC does not want to tax the rich and fund social programs, otherwise they would actually do it when they have functional majorities like a good portion of Obama’s tenure. They would whip people like Manchin and Sinema. They might campaign on some of these ideals but they do the exact opposite once in power. All they have going for them is a thin veneer of respectability. The exact point this meme is making.
The dems basically had 2 years, with a razor thin senate majority, to prevent a second Great Recession, and they passed massive healthcare reform for the uninsured.
And yes, they did sneak in some taxes for the rich during that. They killed Bush’s tax cuts and snuck some stuff in the ACA for high earners.
Actually the “massive health care reform” only further cemented private for profit health care instead of actually moving forward with a real solution: single payer. Sure it helped some people now, but it made the problem worst in the long run. It’s shortsighted at best, and malicious at worst.
Single payer was never going pass in 2008. Not enough dems to break the filibuster, and they needed 9 republicans to jump across the aisle to get to 60 votes.
If people voted in more dems, they’d be getting the healthcare plans that the rest of the modern world has.
The first person to truly float insurance reform was a republican. Romney Care. The DEMs literally went no further than Republicans. That tells you how much they truly tried. Not a lot.
Insurance reform pushes are older than that. The democratic and republican healthcare reform plans from the Clinton era famously both had insurance reform as an element of the reform plans.
The ACA does have similarities to the old Massachusetts plan, but it does go farther in a number of places. Employer mandates are a good example of that. That was an element taken from the old Clinton plan. Most in the GOP never liked that mandate.
Given that most in the GOP moved pretty far to the right in the 15 years between the last national healthcare push, and the dems needed 9 GOP votes to get to 60 in the senate, what was the alternative? Most of the national GOP were basically for the “let the uninsured go bankrupt and die” plan.
the DNC is solely responsible for the rise of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is commonly associated with conservatism and the economic policies of America’s right, not the left. Although presidents like Clinton were fairly big on neoliberal economics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
The term “neoliberalism” can be kind of confusing because it contains “liberal” in it. Socially liberal and economically liberal are pretty different things.
Thatcher had more in common with Reagan era conservative politics than what the DNC wants you to believe do these days. The Dems want to tax the rich, fund social programs, and not privatizing everything. Problem is, they need functional majorities in Congress to reverse a lot of the Reaganomics / neoliberalism crap from the last 40 years.
The DNC does not want to tax the rich and fund social programs, otherwise they would actually do it when they have functional majorities like a good portion of Obama’s tenure. They would whip people like Manchin and Sinema. They might campaign on some of these ideals but they do the exact opposite once in power. All they have going for them is a thin veneer of respectability. The exact point this meme is making.
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality.
In the wise words of Phil Ochs Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Liberal.
The dems basically had 2 years, with a razor thin senate majority, to prevent a second Great Recession, and they passed massive healthcare reform for the uninsured.
And yes, they did sneak in some taxes for the rich during that. They killed Bush’s tax cuts and snuck some stuff in the ACA for high earners.
How is that hypocritical at all?
Actually the “massive health care reform” only further cemented private for profit health care instead of actually moving forward with a real solution: single payer. Sure it helped some people now, but it made the problem worst in the long run. It’s shortsighted at best, and malicious at worst.
Single payer was never going pass in 2008. Not enough dems to break the filibuster, and they needed 9 republicans to jump across the aisle to get to 60 votes.
If people voted in more dems, they’d be getting the healthcare plans that the rest of the modern world has.
The first person to truly float insurance reform was a republican. Romney Care. The DEMs literally went no further than Republicans. That tells you how much they truly tried. Not a lot.
Insurance reform pushes are older than that. The democratic and republican healthcare reform plans from the Clinton era famously both had insurance reform as an element of the reform plans.
The ACA does have similarities to the old Massachusetts plan, but it does go farther in a number of places. Employer mandates are a good example of that. That was an element taken from the old Clinton plan. Most in the GOP never liked that mandate.
Given that most in the GOP moved pretty far to the right in the 15 years between the last national healthcare push, and the dems needed 9 GOP votes to get to 60 in the senate, what was the alternative? Most of the national GOP were basically for the “let the uninsured go bankrupt and die” plan.
I mean… the DNC is solely responsible for the rise of neoliberalism, so…
How many RINOs out there can you count on to block GOP bullshit the way Sinema and Manchin cockblock the D caucus?
DNC tolerates way too much conservatism. They only do it, though, in order to turn spots on the map blue. It’s about winning, not about policy.
Neoliberalism is commonly associated with conservatism and the economic policies of America’s right, not the left. Although presidents like Clinton were fairly big on neoliberal economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
The term “neoliberalism” can be kind of confusing because it contains “liberal” in it. Socially liberal and economically liberal are pretty different things.
Keep going, you’re almost there!
okay… so… remind me what party Clinton was?
Remind me what party still props up Clintonians? As recently as 2016?
Remind me what party steadfastly pushes neoliberals and ostrazices progressives?
Yeah, I stand by my statement 💯