Both parties have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, the Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s: boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum.
The DNC is the party of Reagan. Even on the one front where the DNC is still arguably “left” – identity politics – the focus is on individual responsibility to “do better” (deeply Reaganite logic) corporate media that is basically Reagan-era anti-drug episodes but for racism/sexism/homophobia, and corporate DEI seminars that are antiracist DARE for adults.
Both parties have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, the Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s: boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum.
The DNC is the party of Reagan. Even on the one front where the DNC is still arguably “left” – identity politics – the focus is on individual responsibility to “do better” (deeply Reaganite logic) corporate media that is basically Reagan-era anti-drug episodes but for racism/sexism/homophobia, and corporate DEI seminars that are antiracist DARE for adults.