Democrats added antitrust to their 2018 platform. It's a bit milquetoast and avoids mentioning the big players but it appears to be a start. It'll be interesting to see whether it's a throwaway or if they might do something with it.
Probably depends on if we actually get grassroots, progressive Dems into office and force them into a more populist stance. We are also seeing the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Keith Ellison championing more progressive ideals and gaining popularity with the voter base.
Up to people to spread the word on these, if every person knew 1 or 2 progressive politicians (no matter which side, aka in relation to those regressive in the democracts and those progressive in the undemocratic aka the republican, party) and shared that with others there would sooner rather then later be a change - be the impact you want to see.
Adding something to the platform is a start, but as we've seen from the post-financial crisis era, there's a huge difference between having laws that should put bankers in prison, and actually having an executive with a desire to execute them.
Warren sold out to Clinton, Trump et al will use this to great effect. Clinton turned everybody that touched her into shit and that will be her enduring legacy.
Clinton to me is just par for the course politician, the difference being she failed to defend herself from an absurd volume of rhetoric from the Republicans.
So I would restate your sentence - "Republicans turned everybody that Clinton touched into shit."
Spend ten years tearing into any politician (they're still demonizing Clinton!) and I guarantee you'd find them in the same boat she is now.
If you consider the press and rhetoric she was getting for overturning death row convictions early in her career you could say they have been doing this to her for over 40 years. She is an intelligent woman and very effective as a litigator, which has made the right regard her as an extreme threat since they became aware of her.
I find it amazing and inspiring that she was able to survive politically and thrive despite ever-increasing smear tactics and baseless character gutting the GOP attempted on her. I find it sorely disappointing that after 40 years of it, the right finally succeeded in taking her down. Regardless of which side of the aisle I am on, as a feminist, I am awe struck by her and think she has done an unfathomable amount to advance the interests of women and all those resisting patriarchy globally.
I also hardly consider her a run of the mill politician. She brought the single-payer fight to the hill. She lost, but the current ACA had a lot of its legwork done by her efforts in 1992-1994. If we ever get single-payer, we will owe a lot of it to her.
The third plank is a list of antitrust proposals in line with what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has called for the party to adopt. Facing rising corporate inequality and markets increasingly dominated by a tiny handful of firms, Democrats will propose a new federal office and federal guidelines that would aim to make it more difficult for companies to merge and easier for federal regulators to call attention to their “anticompetitive” behavior.
I was referring to the extensive subsidies and regulatory capture in the USA. I have no opinion nor do I particularly care about it being “democratic” or “republican”
Yeah, do you know where we could get some of that?