Anyone that actually think the DC crime syndicate is any different on either side of the party system has chosen the path of a convenient useful idiot.
Over the last 35 years, I concur. My point is that there was a moment when representing voters’ concerns was a serious, ethical and possible course of action. There may have been an inevitability regarding money’s corrupting power, but there COULD have been a moment when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution could not survive the onslaught of a politicized corporate agenda. If that road had been taken, Bernie Sanders would be a moderate, and Donald Trump would be seen for the ass-hat he has always been.
I also commonly claim '92 as a major turning point, only to be schooled on the long road that came before. But these "points" are subjective and relative.
There is also a case to be made for 1949, Dulles, and the birth of the CIA as a turning point.
So ideals fall in some order or randomly.
But the systemic capture of US democracy by plain private interests is certainly a big event, and I still say we have it right in 1992.
Anyone that actually think the DC crime syndicate is any different on either side of the party system has chosen the path of a convenient useful idiot.
Over the last 35 years, I concur. My point is that there was a moment when representing voters’ concerns was a serious, ethical and possible course of action. There may have been an inevitability regarding money’s corrupting power, but there COULD have been a moment when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution could not survive the onslaught of a politicized corporate agenda. If that road had been taken, Bernie Sanders would be a moderate, and Donald Trump would be seen for the ass-hat he has always been.
I also commonly claim '92 as a major turning point, only to be schooled on the long road that came before. But these "points" are subjective and relative.
There is also a case to be made for 1949, Dulles, and the birth of the CIA as a turning point.
So ideals fall in some order or randomly.
But the systemic capture of US democracy by plain private interests is certainly a big event, and I still say we have it right in 1992.
1992 and then 2008 proved invaluable for neutering Team D.