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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)of the radio, TV and other communications industries, NAFTA, bill after bill, program after program, facilitated the monopolization of our country. We are just starting to pay the price for the mistakes of the 80s and 90s.
We can't blame the entire problem on Reagan and the two Bushes. Clinton and even Obama have done their share of the damage, encouraged their share of monopolization and an over-reliance on imports and outsourcing.
The Clinton presidency was like eating at McDonalds every day. It felt good going down, but the coming back up has been rough.
Look, I walked my entire precinct, up and down hills to get Clinton elected and re-elected in the 1990s. But he made a lot of policy mistakes, and I don't think Hillary will do any better. It's the philosophy. the economic theory that's wrong.
We need Elizabeth Warren because we need a president who understands the economics of bankruptcy and the economic hardships that our middle and working classes are going through. The Clintons sympathize but they don't understand the economics of it, the nitty-gritty of it. They certainly don't know how to fix it. Obama's worst appointments were Clinton left-overs. We need a completely fresh approach to fixing our economy, and Elizabeth Warren is the only possible candidate that meets that test.