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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection. [View all]colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)However I did work and vote for Hillary once Bernie dropped out.
But we get frustrated too. The movie "Inside Job" points out a few reasons why. They show Obama, running in 2008, stridently saying he would go hard after Wall Street and hold the guilty parties accountable to the max.
Of course after he won he did nothing of the sort....no real jail time for rampant and obvious financial fraud for any big exec. They got to, for the most part, keep their massive ill gotten dollars. A firm or two got fined a few million, peanuts to them, usually with no admission of guilt. Then he hired as his financial team the same folks who crashed it, the in and out of Goldman crowd.
If the democrats get control of it all......then we will see what happens, no more excuses.
The whole political baseline has moved rightward since my youth....republicans like Rockefeller and Ike were in many ways left of a great deal of today's democrats.