Schumer trying to get off the naughty list for Christmas. That's something to be thankful for.
He's right, but I wonder why it took 6 years of electoral beat down for him to say something publicly. Everything hinged on lower class and lower-middle class rejuvenation after 2008. Unfortunately, it was clear that Democrats could not achieve consensus within their own ranks as to how healthcare would be used to further a populist economic agenda. Rather than abandon a loser and search for another way to make the middle class strong, they fought amongst themselves, and wasted a year on a bad bill that wasn't going to work.
For the life of me, I'll never understand why the Democratic Party is stuck on stupid. They get shellacked by Reagan, but they don't change. They inherit power again after the Great Recession, only to commence with their ineffective social rabble rousing.
Democrats who think their party is actually going to create competent productive policy are about as smart as Republicans who think their party is going to cut spending.
I see it differently. They changed their economic strategy - they just adopted what I like to call Diet Reaganomics. Instead of simply pushing their economic strategy, or making a populist agenda, their all-encompassing panacea is to move to the center on every single issue - or, in some cases (like Obamacare) adopt the other side's plan. They expect it to become a circlejerk of bipartisanship, where Reid, McConnell, Obama, Boehner, and Pelosi walk into the meadows of DC hand in hand having a picnic, but that's hard to do when the other party is jousting with you for power. The GOP's countered Democratic triangulation by simply moving farther to the right, and the Democrats' only way to keep their base on board is by distracting them with a bunch of feel-good bullsh*t (like furthering the cause of "social justice" by having a bunch of men explain to women that they should have the right to choose instead of the government oppressing them, or keeping guns out of the suburbs).
People like Chuck Schumer are why I left the party. I can talk about how the party isn't a place for the left all I want, but now, it seems like they don't even have the balls to defend their appeasement of the right anymore.
