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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
My post wasn't about decorum, but more on where on the spectrum the Dems end up, mostly in response to your earlier post. Assuming Biden's administration is basically the same as Obama/Clinton, I don't see the response is a worse Trump. I see inequality as a massive issue as well, but it doesn't mean the majority of voters seek a big shift left for the Dems as the answer (and doesn't say anything about how the Republicans shift policy).
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Well I think there are a few schools of thought when it comes to Trump:
1) He's an aberration and, along with the GOP, the main cause of the issues that plague the U.S.
2) He's the result of 40+ years of both parties sliding to the right economically and the insidiousness of big money in politics.
3) Some kind of mix of the two.
I personally subscribe to option 2 because historically we've seen this before in times of tremendous inequality, and we're seeing it now in other countries (Duterte, Bolsonarro, Erdogan, etc., etc.). IMO, if the U.S. doesn't get its inequality issues in order, history will repeat itself and the consequences will be much worse than they were this time around.