Opinion of the 1990s Democratic Party

[darklordoftech]

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[Ferguson97]

Democrats have been the better party since the 1960s.

[brucejoel99]

A middle-class tax cut & an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working-poor were freedom promises kept by a freedom party.

[PSOL]

A horrible phase of an incredibly lousy to downright horrible party. The party did nothing on combatting the right wing paramilitarism that has cursed us today, while cracking down on unarmed protesters who got nothing from them in the urban areas of the Pacific Northwest and East (how poetic). The party sold out the working person by continuing the privatization, deregulation, and codification of the Prison Industrial Complex.

The only reason why it survived was the excuse of “lesser evilism” from a broken electoral system. What’s worse is that the 90s never ended, as the same dominant faction still got their guy in the end to continue administering the system. The worst part is that the 90s will never be let go for quite some time for the Democratic Party, as real change is not happening.

Oh well, jokes on me thinking change can happen without serious disruption in the fringes and colonized domains. Previous commentators and experts said this information for decades at this point, but I’m a goldfish or at least living in a false consciousness as one instead of a rational human being who understands instead of observes.

[SevenEleven]

Freedom Party.

Look at the 1980s, and the actions of Republicans in the 90s and after, and try to justify otherwise.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Freedom Party.

Look at the 1980s, and the actions of Republicans in the 90s and after, and try to justify otherwise.

The GOP in the 80s and 90s was great

[SevenEleven]

Freedom Party.

Look at the 1980s, and the actions of Republicans in the 90s and after, and try to justify otherwise.

The GOP in the 80s and 90s was great

You think Newt Gingrich shutting down the government and impeaching Clinton were great?? Prop 187 was great?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Freedom Party.

Look at the 1980s, and the actions of Republicans in the 90s and after, and try to justify otherwise.

The GOP in the 80s and 90s was great

You think Newt Gingrich shutting down the government and impeaching Clinton were great?? Prop 187 was great?

Prop 187 was great, the shutdown forced Clinton to come to an agreement to cut spending, we forced Clinton to do welfare reform too

[TML]

This was a time period where the party moved significantly away from the New Deal era by focusing more on elites than working class people. Such actions contributed to the rise of populist figures like Trump and Sanders, as well as the current political climate where the Overton window is well to the right of where it is in most other democratic countries in the developed world.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Not that the answer is stupid per se (far from it), but justifying "Freedom Party" only with "the Republicans were worse" sounds stupid in my opinion.
That said I am pretty neutral.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Bill Clinton coopted the Reform Party ideas, that's why 1994 and 2000 replicated the 279 blue wall, due to Reagan Ds going the way of Bill Clinton, but with the Brady Bill came out, the South went R, LA, AR and WVA.

Bill Clinton was a blue collar Dem, but just like with Bullock and Biden, blue collar roots became more secular, as they fooled around with sexual affairs. That's why Gore and Kerry lost in the following elections.

That's why we will see a 279 map this time, Biden still has sexual affairs background and is disturbing for blue collar white voters

[MT Treasurer]

Unpopular opinion: The worst kind of "centrist" party and incredibly underrated in terms of the short-term and long-term damage its promoted and implemented social/economic/foreign policies have caused on the national and international stage, to say nothing of the abject moral failure of the Clintons as individuals and leaders + their role in poisoning the political discourse, exacerbating the culture wars, and contributing to increasing "polarization" in American politics/society. The Clinton presidency and New Democrats should have been the last things to lead the country into a new millennium marked by such irreversible and drastic global and cultural changes, and we’re still feeling the effects of it today.

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Bill Clinton was a disaster for the country with NAFTA, getting China into the WTO, repealing Glass Steagal, and so on.

[Hope For A New Era]

Good at the time, but did a lot of things that came back to bite us later. Extremely moderate, but I guess they had no choice. Were doing what they had to do.

As usual though, still better than the Republicans. Narrowly FP.

[Alcibiades]

Unpopular opinion: The worst kind of "centrist" party and incredibly underrated in terms of the short-term and long-term damage its promoted and implemented social/economic/foreign policies have caused on the national and international stage, to say nothing of the abject moral failure of the Clintons as individuals and leaders + their role in poisoning the political discourse, exacerbating the culture wars, and contributing to increasing "polarization" in American politics/society. The Clinton presidency and New Democrats should have been the last things to lead the country into a new millennium marked by such irreversible and drastic global and cultural changes, and we’re still feeling the effects of it today.

Clinton oversaw a period of economic prosperity and general international peace. His budget surplus (quite a remarkable achievement) was squandered by Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. I don’t agree with everything he did, but quite frankly the Democrats had no option but to be centrist or face long-term electoral irrelevance. To say that the Democrats exacerbating the culture wars in this period is ridiculous. It was almost entirely down to an increasingly deranged Republican Party, while the Dems tried to compromise by passing moderately socially progressive legislation such as DADT and the Assault Weapons Ban. Say what you want about Bill Clinton’s personal life, but the hypocrisy of the GOP’s attacks (e.g. Gingrich’s affair) meant they came out looking a lot worse from that episode.