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Ah the 90s. Men were men, women were women, and we were allowed to say so without being without a screaming mob coming after you (unless you were Clarence Thomas, then you were fair game). Those were the days.
I don’t think this cognitive dissonance will bother Democratic voters. It is odd, though.
The left is in the process of ‘coming out of the closet’ about the fact that they really don’t like capitalism. They also for the most part don’t have a sincere interest in compromising or working with Republicans. Obama embodies this mentality. We’ll see if the Dems think they need to dial it back to 90’s levels of watered-down leftism, or go further down the path that Obama is walking.
These are inconsistencies that will be of no consequence, since Democratic voters are largely uninterested in actual economic policies.
They view politics as two teams competing, and the 90’s are proof of their team’s superiority. It would never occur to a Dem that Clinton’s cap gains tax cut, e.g., is evidence of the superiority of OUR IDEAS, since, well, precious few of them are even aware of it.
Reform Conservatives believe Bill Clinton is the best president since Eisenhower.