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comment by kleinbl00

Problem is? It's impossible to be a bleeding-heart neoliberal.

Things the Democrats have done since Kennedy:

- Civil Rights Act of 1964. Cost LBJ the presidency, cost the Democrats the South ever since.

- Watergate hearings. Cost Democrats Iran, which ultimately cost Carter the presidency.

- Robert Bork. Created Mitch McConnell, cost the Democrats concealed weapons laws, roe v wade and government bureaucracies in one fucking weekend.

- Obamacare. Cost the house and senate.

I would argue that Nixon blowing up Breton Woods crushed British and American labor, created trickle-down economics and nudged the Gini Coefficient on a trajectory towards feudalism. The Democrats opted to be the "party of civil rights" in the '60s and then utterly failed to do anything with it for sixty goddamn years.