One old guy’s perspective on why we are where we are. An alternative recent history of US Politics. Cross-post by Robert W Malone MD, MS (08/04/24)

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This cross-post outlining “one old guy’s perspective on why we are where we are and where I think things are gonna go” is well worth your time.

Old guy Daniel states:

The political issues we face today go back to the 1990’s and the end of the Cold War. The republicans were the party of the country club and Chamber of Commerce, the party of the old Wall Street. The democrats were the union, blue collar party, the party of Civil Rights and Women’s rights, the party of the working and middle class.

He then discusses how the two parties changed, "first in a merging of interests and then a shattering of them." He explains how the working and middle class lost all representation while the donor class elites took control over the policy of both political parties. War became the approved foreign policy and spending became the approved economic policy. Where the parties differed was social policy, with Democrats generally favoring abortion, gender, and racial identity issues while Republicans generally opposed them.

Elites took over while the MAGA sector pushed back. We acquired a two-tiered justice system. We swung back and forth between left and right with no room for the in-between middle. Until Trump.

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