Did the Democratic Establishment long ago given up and concluded that the future belonged to the 1%?
And thus since only has been battling for the 1% to be a bit kinder to the people than the Republicans?
Conclusions based on the following:
- The world catching up to the U.S. in industrial production in the 70's (after being decimated in WWII)
- The end of the postwar boom
- The potential for emerging computer technology (even since the 70s) to make less workers needed (and thus a tool to enrich the 1% and cut down the power of the middle and working classes.)
- The vast conspiracy that the 1% had planned
- The idea, even in the 70s, that corporations would become so powerful that in the future they would supersede nation states in power (reference the movie: The Network (1976))
- The rise of globalism by the 1% that would undercut the power of the American worker and strip the bargaining power of the American worker.
Democrats didn't want to be on the wrong side of the power of the 1%, and instead benefit from it like the Republicans.
Of course, there are other theories, like the good cop bad cop one, but I'm just throwing this out as a possibility.
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I dunno what you'd call it, but it looks like hate to me 
