The Democrats are just as complicit in creating this political storm. They stopped championing the working class and those living below the poverty line long ago and this has only made the bigoted dog whistling of the GOP and Trump in particular, more effective. It’s not ok to use minorities as scapegoats, but less people would be looking for others to blame if they didn’t face so many preventable problems.
The Clintons, Obama, Pelosi and co’s complicity in helping to create this hyper toxic political climate can’t be overstated either. They are all elitist socio political vandals and when an honest politician does come along to try to put out the fire, they are chewed up and spat out by the oligarchs who created this tinder box.
Matey can we please stop this. Please stop searching for the middle road and "compromise", it's the biggest load of bullshit.
In no way what so ever am I painting the Democrats as angels, I'm still pissed they selected Hillary over Bernie. The Dems are clearly centre right (economically) and a lot of hot air socially, before the vote counting finished their "moderates" went out on an all attack on their "progressives" and blamed them for the lack of Senate seats. So I'm not going to sit here and say they're angels in anyway, but the corruption and vileness of the parties is VASTLY different.
It's not too dissimilar to our political landscape, for a long time Labor went centre right and started copying Liberal policies (e.g. border control with asylum seekers, Alabanese's capitulation for tax cuts to corporates). Bill Shorten actually put a vision in for Australia and where he wanted Australia to head towards, what did Morrsicum do? Smoke and mirrors and our media were compliant in scummo's marketing bullshit.
But back to this "middle of the road/compromise" bullshit, Eddie Obeid, Peter Slipper, Sam Dastyari, Craig Thompson look at the outcomes of those scandals/incidents, now compare that to multiple scandals of conservatives Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan, George Christensen, Bronwyn Bishop, Peter Duttons many many fuck ups, Stuart Roberts, Christian Porter, Barnaby Joyce, Gladys Liu, Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Craig Kelly, Susan Ley, Joe Hockey, Tony Abbott, Tim Wilson, Eric Abetz, Michaelia Cash, every single one of them have scandals if not worse, just as bad as the 4 I mentioned above who were forced to resign or had charges brought against them.
(as a note for others reading this, if you follow politics, you would have knowledge of the scandals concerning EACH OF THE MINISTERS/SENATORS I NAMED AND NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM COPPED ENOUGH CRITICISM FROM THE MEDIA NOR WERE FORCED TO STEP DOWN. I'm also forgetting the ministers name for the sports rorts scandal, it was a female minister but scummo was directly involved in that too.
So let's leave this when we criticise conservative polticians, let's also point out Labor/Democrats for fairness, because it's bullshit, the vast number of scandals surrounding repsective parties paints a clear picture of the lessor evil.
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