Serious/Not Sarcastic: What happened to the democratic party and when??

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Globalism happened. Democrat politicians, starting with Bill Clinton, sold us out in return for kickbacks from China. They've all gotten very rich while successfully convincing their voters that we're racist if we care more about feeding our own kids than the kids of illegal immigrants.

[–]ChillyChili[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I dont think it started wirh clinton. Like, he was a pile of shit and maybe I was too young to see everything but for a party to go from including conservatives to supporting super-super-duper-extremist liberalism seems like a big shift.

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It goes all the way back to Nixon and his trip to China — perhaps even further — but that's the latest.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Clinton's famous phrase was "it's the economy, stupid". He actually tried to get the democrats back on a sensible good economy and law and order stance.

This stuff likely started back with FDR, the bored rich using the government to patronise the poor under the guise of social justice, especially their personal favourite victim groups. The Kennedys definitely had a big dose of this illness as well.

Then when GWB got in the left just went super crazy, just like it did over Trump. So it's not really something the democrats did, rather their over reaction to Bush/Trump winning and their reliance on rich donors allowed the crazies, who had always been around, to steal their party out from under them.