From Xitter:
We are where we are in our politics today because of neoliberal idiots like James, and they are insistent on learning absolutely nothing.
Clinton gave us the Telecom Act of 1996, which enabled the rise of the media monopolies that Trump is now using as kill switches for our freedom of speech.
Clinton passed Section 230, which shielded tech companies from liability for their algorithms and gave us the disastrously polarizing, hate-fueling, nihilism-inducing social media horrorscape we live in today.
Clinton deregulated banking and finance, which gave us the Great Financial Crisis, tens of millions of home foreclosures, and Too Big To Fail banks — all while destroying the community banks that used to serve our small businesses and keep our small towns alive.
Clinton blessed merger waves in the defense industry, allowing a handful of monopolists to roll up our defense industrial base, degrade its production capacity, and profiteer off of our military even as they can’t even produce enough ammunition or working fighter planes.
Clinton gave us NAFTA and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, which decimated our manufacturing base en masse and destroyed communities across the South and Midwest.
Clinton gave us the Faircloth Amendment, which capped the number of public housing the federal government can fund and is a big part of why we can’t build enough affordable housing in this country.
Clinton passed the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1997, which pushed farmers to grow soybeans and corn above all else and beyond all domestic demand, fueling the rise of ultra-processed foods while making farmers dependent on Chinese and other foreign buyers to sell their crops.
Clinton gave us mass incarceration, the destruction of welfare programs, the abandonment of racial integration, the outsourcing of government to contractors, and so much more of what ails this country.
But perhaps worst of all, Clinton normalized all of this corruption. He normalized a government and a political culture that looked the other way while Big Business and Wall Street ruled and looted the country. But yes, by all means, James — let’s go back to this “winning platform.”
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