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Don't forget the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed for the mass media consolidation we see today.
Bill Clinton pulled out a saxophone to make liberal economics sexy and unfortunately it worked.
I was baffled watching the right wing freak the fuck out all during the 90s about a version of Bill Clinton that only seemed to exist in their heads.
They kept acting that because he and Hillary apparently were what they thought of as boomers/60s hippie activists that it meant Stalin was in the WH. It was all so fucking ridiculous THEN, it looks positively braindead in retrospect.
Clinton was not even a centrist, for fuck's sake.
Hmmm... So you're telling me the president that followed the "let's cater to the conservatives to woo them over" turned out to be devastating to the Democratic party...
Let's see what the Democrats are doing now as they obviously learned that lesson...
...wait... They learned that lesson right?
(Insert Padame & Anikin meme here)
You bet he did. Encouraged child rapists and made sure the #1 government policy is protect the pedophiles over a certain income.
Obama bailed out banks instead of people which paved the asphalt for their runway.
More importantly, Obama's justice department declined to even really investigate Bush or Cheney for war crimes... Setting the stage for letting Trump get away with as much and now more.
He also legalized, codified, and expanded the drone war, kickstarting the modern drone war state of war.
No, he didn't. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed and signed into law by Bush a month before the 2008 election even happened. The only thing you can really say is that Senator Obama was one of 70 yes votes on the bill in the Senate.
Obama signed the American Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily focused on stimulus and assistance to individuals and working families. He also signed Dodd-Frank which put a ton of new restrictions on the banks.
Basic facts matter.
I don't think you have your timeline correct. That happened under Bush.
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