[High Praise! to The Real Revo]
The money-quote starts up in earnest around 1:07, but there’s a cute part earlier on about hypersensitivity to sexism that you’ll probably enjoy, too, so probably just watch the whole thing:
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I gather this episode was from 2000. I never watched the show, so I’ll just roll with that date.
Revo’s commentary says it best:
So basically, if we get in the Wayback Machine all the way to the very distant year 2000–a lifetime ago–Democrats did not necessarily want to fleece the hell out of the rich. They did not necessarily take class warfare to 11 on the dial. They were not necessarily full-blown Marxists.
In fact, one might surmise that even as recently as 2000, the wisest Democrats (as the protagonists in the West Wing were meant to depict) avoided such divisive rhetoric like the plague. In other words, Democrats of 15 years ago would probably balk at the crap being pulled by the current administration (and its compatriots).
Well, what do you expect when they have a pederast as the Senate Majority Leader?
Ha ha!
I want 27 votes 🙁
Interesting, isn’t it, how easy it is to “evolve” from Democrat “sympathy for the little guy” to tyranny against everyone with means.
Today’s Democrats don’t understand it. Some in yesteryear, did.
They’re gone.
If you look at some of the earlier writings of Hitler, or John Wayne Gacy, they sound pretty reasonable too.
most people aren’t born crazy.
Hey, I’m a one percenter this year….I need you people to quit complaining and pay my taxes.
I’m pissed off that now I’m in that one percent category I lose my Obama tax breaks for when I was poor and made less than a quarter mil.
Going to vote for Romney this time….maybe I’ll get my tax breaks back. I’m saving up for a private plane so I can create jobs.
There are no Obama tax breaks.
Only Obama continuing the current tax rates because he didn’t dare allow them to expire when he had the chance.
The riddle is – how much is he willing to hurt the poor and middle class in order to ‘punish’ the ‘rich’ in the name of ‘fairness’?
“In other words, Democrats of 15 years ago would probably balk at the crap being pulled by the current administration (and its compatriots).”
I kinda doubt this… I think the Democrats of today are just more honest with their agendas than their counterparts from 15 years ago. The more time liberals have to stupify the masses with leftist media and public school indoctrination centers, the less reason Democrats have to hide their true intentions.