• MediumSizedSnack@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.

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      11 hours ago

      Do you think playing into the myth helped Clinton? Or do you think people who buy it vote republican anyway, just like Kamala bragging about securing the border against migrant terror caravans, loans for small businesses, the most lethal military, etc?

      Because to me it looks like he’s just admitting the republicans were right, but saying they’ll be more competent at harming minorities.