There Is a Moderate Republican in This Race, But She’s Running as a Democrat

[Purveyor]

Who is the real Democrat — Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Why are fringe candidates getting all of the attention this year? Who are the moderates?

These questions can all be answered by understanding something that has been unfolding for 40 years: The center of American politics has shifted steadily to the right. Today, neither party is even remotely similar to what it was when Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, for example, first entered politics.

In the late 1970s, as large corporations turned into transnational giants, they pumped huge amounts of cash into the political system. This largesse lured, first, the Republican Party, in the 80s, followed by the Democratic Party in the ‘90s, and precipitated a rightward political shift as both parties rewrote their policies to compete for the same corporate contributions.

Before this, from 1932-1976, the Democratic Party as a whole was far more progressive. The issues and approaches advocated today by Bernie Sanders were considered mainstream Democratic ideas by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and even many moderate Republicans. It was common to support strict financial regulation, liberal immigration, social services for the poor, and progressive tax policies.

Hillary Clinton’s stances, while fluid during this election cycle, are historically most in tune with classical Republican ideas, as advocated by Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and others. As a young woman, she volunteered for the conservative Barry Goldwater, and while today she’s become liberal on some social issues, she’s generally at home with moderate conservative ideas, such as a hawkish military, strict immigration laws, reduced welfare, laissez-faire rules for Wall Street, and international business treaties that favor large corporations. One group started a petition this year asking Clinton to run as a Republican, suggesting that while she is “liberal on some issues, on a wide range of important issues she lands squarely as a moderate conservative.”

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[Baobab]

1. She does want to redistribute the wealth globally, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_integration

Basically the agreement we signed in 1995, which hasn't been completed yet, because of the problems with the Doha Development Agenda - specifically Mode Four, proposes to make the world one free trade area where corporations could move their employees anywhere they want and pay them whatever they agree upon.

that would have powerful redistributive effects - However for the indigenous workers in developed countries (such as our own) they would unambiguously be quite negative.

Wages would fall to some equilibrium level.

[FreakinDJ]

3. No she wants to turn the Dem Party into Republican-lite

[Baobab]

4. It wont matter what the Democratic or Republican party are in this case

The whole idea of economic integration is moving procurement into the world of world trade - having everything connected with it be managed by the WTO revised GPA - so firms, especially genuine least developed country firms - one of the main goals of WTO is to encourage trade between the Global South countries and the developed countries-

Corporations that tender winning low bids win the right to do the work. All WTO members have the right to receive the benefits of the agreement, such as competition lowering prices.

this is what Hillary is talking about when she says we will rebuild our infrastructure.

[Scuba]

2. She's not all that moderate. She's an oil loving, war mongering, Wall Street shill.