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Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. The generational divide isn't some question of political tone, it's economic. There's no future for the young because the olds stole it all.
The ideological shift is about the return of populism, which is happening because of the financial crisis, which was of course in reality a thinly disguised political crisis. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
The argument Obama was too conciliatory to Republicans is crap. There's nothing wrong with working with anyone on shared goals. And there's nothing wrong with not working w/opponents. Obama just sucked at making policy because his ideas were bad.
Tim Geithner was bailing out banks not because there was 13 dimensional chess going on but because that was his goal. Obama lied about trying to claw back AIG bonuses because he was a liar who lied to get what he wanted, which was a plutocracy run by Ivy League elites. Simple.
Bill Clinton lied routinely to push plutocrat-friendly policies because he was a liar who wanted to help rich people. He thought that was the right thing to do, and he was also incredibly greedy. This isn't hard.
Obama was a bad President. Bush was a bad President. Clinton was a bad President. These are people who believe they and their friends are better than you, which is why they have money and power and you don't. It's not that hard to understand, it's just hard to accept.
The neoliberal project is a dumpster fire, but there are tens of thousands of elites whose lives are wrapped up in believing otherwise. Brookings just had a 40 year celebration of airline deregulation! How do you tell tens of thousands of olds their life's work meant nothing?
In terms of a generational divide, while Obama/Hoyer/Pelosi were fucking up foreclosure policy, @aoc was LIVING THROUGH A FORECLOSURE. You think they have different views of banks? Thank God for millennials, who see markets and commerce are always 100% politically constructed.
