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I know he was impeached for lying but still.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Edit: A few comments mention the power imbalance between Lewinsky as an intern and the president. This meme shouldn't be seen as me approving of Clinton's behavior but point out that an adult man having "sexual relations" with a child should have some bearing against a sitting president.
If Clinton is in the Epstein files, show the world.
Because we begrudge history instead of learning how we got spanked and implementing strategies that work for rather than against us. Did we take the same steps Ken Star and George Conway did? Did we take a century view of where we wanted to be and have the skills and patience necessary to get there? Did we maintain an emotional connection with our issues with the public? No, we celebrated too soon and resented rather than learned.
This is what people miss about conservatives: they seem to be getting things done. When you have a single-minded focus on a particular thing, like abortion, then regardless of whether you should have done so or not you are going to get it done when you put in the level of time and effort that was done.
Never mind that it was a cover for lowering taxes on the wealthy - The People voted for it, and so got both in the same package. In contrast, the Dems seem to stand for... what exactly? Besides being merely less obvious about making payments to corporations?
Survival of the Fittest for now looks like it has doomed the USA Democrats. We'll see if it has doomed democracy itself (this one globally). All I know is that afaik no democracy in history has ever survived devolution into a 2-party system - the parties each merely claim that they are not the other side, which incentives them to avoid actually doing anything themselves, which causes systemic collapse (hrm, sounds familiar somehow...).
I wish I could see a way out of this.
Moreover, survival of the fittest refers to the ability to adapt, rather than bludgeoning. Dawkins referred to tit-tit-tat, in The Selfish Gene.
It seems to me more like a game of "chicken" - you wouldn't really vote for the other side, would you? (Immediately votes for other side.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that yet again, would you? (Immediately does that again.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that still yet also again, would you? (Repeat.)
When 60% of the population can't make ends meet, Democrats continue to talk about middle class. They need to address poverty in meaningful ways and get it done.
Spoiler: they won't, but meanwhile Republicans will promise to (BBB lowers taxes on tips and such, thereby incentivizing those styles of employment at the expense of the middle class).