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Petition Calling for House Speaker Other Than Hakeem Jeffries Hits 1 Million Signatures | Common Dreams
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I’m not American so please take that into account, but my perception of the dems is they have a listening problem, both internally and externally. They can’t seem to keep their ears on the ground.
Dems are too beholden to the donor class- the Hollywood crowd- Spielbergs and Streisands and corporatists Dems like Bill & Hillary.
The way politics are financed in the USA perpetuates the need for endless cash grabbing from rich donors. Meanwhile, the common people sit at the back of the bus.
Been that way for decades, now.
That's because the establishment wing of the party since Bill Clinton's time has actually been fiscally conservative.
So they don't listen to the people's cries when they beg for progress. Because progressivism here is the closest thing we have to social democracy. And yet they get derided as "far-left" 🙄... Please.
The actual far-left calls even progressives "centrists." But there is no actual far-left in US politics; that only exists among edge lords and keyboard warriors on the fringes of the internet.
Bill Clinton removed glass-steagal to add a clear example.
I didn't know that, thanks. Could that have contributed to the 2008 financial crisis?
That is mentioned in the wiki entry. It does seem to be a contributing factor
It set the stage, it was just a matter of time after that repeal.