Reply #46: "Centrist" Democrat Clinton... [View All]

committed the sins that lead to Bush 2.

An old, old thread on this topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=39521&forum=DCForumID60

Clinton came in on the heels of the most criminal administration in history, on a crew of gangsters who had plundered the treasury, started illegal wars, made mincemeat of our ancient rights... and he, Clinton, let them get away with it. At any rate, did nothing with the power of presidency to make them pay for it. Oh, that would have been divisive. And he spent his eight years in power in a political holding pattern, caring only for his own remaining in office. Nothing of what the first Reagan-Bush years "accomplished" was rolled back, on the contrary the nation's most draconian "anti-terror" and "anti-crime" and "welfare reform" programs (at any rate, the most draconian pre-Bush 2) were passed.

Well, having once again seen that crime pays, the same group of gangsters went off with their killing, built up for a return, plotted, and came back to power in 2000, this time even stealing the election openly.

And everyone had to get over it, complaining would be immoderate. So they kept getting away with crimes.

The only way to build an opposition is to be an opposition, and to start early.