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In reply to the discussion: Yup...the schism on DU is deepening [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Bill and Hillary are now members of the wealthy elite.
They could care less about people whose fathers worked in factories and are now working at Walmart. They could care less about young families saddled with the burden of huge student loans. They could care less about people on Social Security, people earning minimum wage, people living in trailers, people who have been foreclosed, people who had to declare bankruptcy, people who are homeless.
They serve a meal to a hungry person every once in a while. They shake a senior's hand. Meanwhile, they negotiate trade agreements and "compromises" about welfare that increase joblessness, homelessness, ignorance, foreclosures and that leave all but the top 10% of Americans behind.
NAFTA, welfare reform, support for Walmart. Those are just a few Clinton policies that, joined with George W. Bush's wars caused so many Americans to fall into poverty.
We do not want the DLC. It has not served average Americans. It has made our lives worse. We want labor, health, trade and anti-trust policies (among other policies) that serve ordinary Americans and not just upper-income Americans.