Liberal Forum

RALPH NADER (Nov 6, 2024)... my comments in BLUE:   This is a collapse of the Democratic Party. They didn’t get their vote out that they wanted. They were several million votes below what they expected, and, of course, that made the difference in an Electoral College system in the swing states.  Basically, we now are a country under a dictatorial corporate state (yea, RIGHT). Trump is basically a magnet and a trap for the Democrats. They (the Democrat Party) spent tens of millions of dollars on ads going after Trump, instead of going after the four years that Trump deep-sixed so many critical issues and positions in his term as president. So, the problem is, it’s so many variables here to deal with. It all started,  when the Democrats abandoned half the country to the red states. That’s devastating. Then they started getting corporate cash in 1979, dialing for the same commercial values. That blurred their difference from the New Deal-type Democrats to the corporate Democrats. Then they contracted out the election to these corporate-conflicted profiteering consulting firms, which the mass media never seemed to want to investigate in this campaign. And then they abandoned public media... And then they never learn from their mistakes.

 And so, the message that they gave to the American people? The message is Trump is terrible, and you can’t believe how bad the Republican Party is. It’s too general a message, too simple. A vast majority of people think corporations have too much control over their lives. They didn’t fill the blanks, denial of healthcare benefits. And they didn’t fill the blanks on a living wage (Spoken like a Marxist Socialist Warrior) . They didn’t fill the blanks on cracking down on corporate crooks (doesn't mention the Democrat controlled Bureaucrat crooks). They didn’t fill the blanks on reversing a tax system which under taxes the very wealthy and the big corporations. They didn’t reverse themselves really on trade. They didn’t know how to rebut Trump on immigration. He called the people coming in rapists, criminals, drug traffickers, etc. Instead of saying, “Well, they’re fleeing oppressive countries that are backed by the U.S., dictators and oligarchs in Central and South America,” they didn’t say that millions of Americans trust immigrants to harvest their food, to care for their children, to care for elderly, to provide critical services that nobody wants to work in in the U.S. (the TRUTH is there are BOTH good and bad.. BUT ARE ILLEGALS and many are violent criminals !!)

So, you know, there’s such a bill of particulars against this Democratic Party. And what’s happened, of course, is that millions of people are basically saying, “We’re sick of throwaway lines. We’re sick of not having the government return the benefits of massive taxation to us. We’re sick of — all we hear about is empire abroad. All we hear about is more military budgets by the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress, giving the generals more than they ask for, eating the public budgets that should be providing public services and public infrastructure in communities all over the country, creating key jobs.” (Oh BROTHER... Ralph Nader is TRULY a Marxist Socialist, but, TODAYS Democrats are CORRUPT, SELF SERVING, POWER hungry BUREAUCRATS... and I don't think America needs EITHER !!)   Now, we tried to straighten out these Democrats. Twenty-four civic leaders in 2022, going into the present time, tried to tell them how to communicate, what to communicate with all the people. And they didn’t listen.
 
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