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Thom's blog
What Do Democrats Really Want?
 Thomas Friedman, the confused billionaire, told us decades ago that "free trade" is what made the Lexus a successful product when, in fact, it was decades of Japanese government subsidies and explicit tariffs that did so. He then rather pathetically told us the Iraq war would be over within six months so many times that six months came to be known as a "Friedman unit." Now he thinks he's figured out what's going to get Democrats and swing voters so excited they'll kick out Trump in 2020. He says we need to keep giving our for-profit insurance corporations and big pharma nearly twice as much money as citizens of any other developed country pay for their healthcare and drugs. He thinks that if people in the US have a contagious disease, we should check their citizenship before giving them treatment - something only a billionaire like Trump or Friedman could afford because they live in such bubbles - while the rest of us would rather not catch their illness. Finally, he says that Democrats will only be brought together by fear of Trump, because Americans really don't want a return to the values of FDR's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. Friedman quotes a Democratic politician who complains that her "critics" say she's "too close to business," suggesting politicians should stay in bed with the fat cats. In fact, the vast majority of Americans want what he calls "radical" change. We want money out of politics. We want leeches like insurance companies peeled off of us. We want the big banks broken up and re-regulated. We want everybody to be able to go to college or trade school without going into debt. And we want workers to be decently paid and have the right to unionize. There are three Friedman Units before the election. If Democrats try to run on Friedman's "moderate" platform, a continuation of Friedman's "free trade" Clintonism that took over the Party in 1992 and rejected FDR, we'll get the result we deserve: 4 more years of Trump and his corporatist buddies. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: What Do Democrats Really Want?
Tweet: " Tom Friedman of the NYT just made a brilliant suggestion to Brian Williams: The Dems should take Trump's racist attacks & hold a nationwide telethon to raise donations toward registering more people to vote! Use Trump's racist moments! Use them to raise money! Yesss." by Anne Rice.
Hour Two: How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually Happen if Trump Wins in 2020
Law: " G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia. Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.
Tweet: " So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......" by Donald J. Trump. Tweet: " ....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how...." by Donald J. Trump.
Hour Three: Trump solidifies racist attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar as rally crowd chants 'Send her back!' - What's the End Product Other Than Violence Against People of Color?
Article: " Sedition" by The Law Dictionary. Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 3. "... Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. ..." Quote: " If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson. |
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