2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Exchange between Bill Clinton and New Mexico Resident Illustrates Deceptive Framing of Key Issues [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)Bill Clinton sold out the Democratic Party and went the DLC way. In fact, his policies made life a lot more difficult for black people with his welfare 'reform' and mass incarceration. And Hillary is part of all of that and continues a connection with the private prison industry.
The New Deal happened before the civil rights movement so while it is wrong to have not made it more about equality for all, at the time it was still a very good thing for most people. One could use your strain of thought about many groups of people throughout history, women, homosexuals, Japanese, etc... Everything comes from the time in history when it occurred.
Would you rather have had no FDR and no New Deal? The policies were very good, it was the state of our culture or racism that allowed them to not benefit PoC as much.
And if we had another New Deal today you know it wouldn't be the same as before even though racism is still a very serious and prevalent issue in this country.
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