francoHFW
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Clinton basically gave away the store to the Republicans who were in charge of the Congress until 98, then see how much better things got lol. Ohwellthatwas.com no doubt...According to some leftists, by 1992 Republicans had occupied the White House for 12 years, destroying the unions that had supported Democrats. New Dems like Clinton and Gore decided to begin accepting corporate contributions from "clean" sources like Big Tech and the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate)
Imho, both major parties are now fully committed in serving the interests of the US investor class at the expense of the vast majority of Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_competition#:~:text=The%20Investment%20theory%20of%20party,leading%20part%20in%20political%20systems.
Where the hell do you get your news?Very true and similar here as we thanks to Regan and Thatcher's relationship were going through the same thing. Thatcher was followed by Blair simply because he was seen as similar to her. He had taken over from John Smith who had died but who was working on trying to get the British Parliament truly Democratic with the necessaries to keep it so. Blair did only minor things. Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and some vague ability to get freedom of information but mainly he knowingly and willingly sold our Democracy to Corporate Capitalism. He got in twice and then the other Tories got in again. Eventually and it was totally by accident a left wing Labourite was recommended for Leader. He was supposed to be just an extra name who would not get votes but he most certainly did and so we got a genuine left Leader in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour right through a hissy fit. Even worse he wanted rights for the Palestinians. Your President promised he would not become PM if the British were stupid enough to vote for him and on and on and so he did not become PM and a lot of people were harmed or lost their jobs due to the dreadful unlawful going ons of the Labour Party. Now we have Keir Starmer, ex Public Prosecutor and the ideal man to rid the UK of all signs of social democracy but will he be able. Thankfully Unions are making a bit of a come back here. Hoping that continues and people start to learn that they can make change again.