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The reason I left the Democrat party which I became being the child of blue-collar parents was that it decided that to be competitive with the vulture capitalist spirit and politics of the 80s, 90s and 2000s was that it's so called centricism wasn't centrist at all. The goal post had moved so far to the right that Dem party leaders might as well have joined the GOP which became the bastion of Kocheconomics. They called their brand of economic policy the "Third Way" which was/is nothing more than Republican-lite. That was before the GOP went nuts and became Maggats. Third Wayers talked like Democrats of the mid-century America but the governed in fiscal matters exactly like the elephants. Obama used the same economic advisors whose mania for deregulation resulted in the crash of 2008 the aftermath of which many economists called a "depression" not "recession" as claimed. Only the defrauders got out alive. Americans involuntarily paid the TARP tab to save the crooks from themselves and got nothing for it but derision from the Wolves of Wall Street. All wealth of Americans accumulated over the prior decade mostly in their homes vanished.

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