You will buy...I’ve been thinking about the 2008 economic collapse. Last night, I watched “The Big Short.” This morning, I rousted myself from a bit of weekend laziness to listen to Robert Scheer interview Thomas Frank about his new book: “Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?” It is fairly devastating in explaining how the Clinton Revolution played kissy-face with the Reagan Revolution.
“You could make the argument that Bill Clinton did things in the 1990s that no Republican would have been capable of doing. ... Reagan couldn’t push bank deregulation as far as Clinton did. Clinton did things that Reagan would never have dared to do: welfare reform ... [and] NAFTA. George Bush couldn’t get NAFTA passed. ... So you start to think that the game that the Clintons play with us, where we vote for them because we have nowhere else to go. ... There’s a sort of political economics of how we the voters are manipulated in this situation, and they’re very, very good at playing that game. And so people like you and me who are on the left are captured, basically. We don’t have anywhere else to go. And they play us in a certain way.”