RedKing, I'm surprised how little empathy you seem to have for Republicans given that you're behaving exactly the same way as them except on the other side. You're railing on in literally exactly the same way as Republicans that want to repeal Obama's laws just because Obama made them.
Well, no. He's railing on them because of what they've done, not who has done it. Unless you call hating obama for being a black person doing friggin' anything as equivalent to being real pissed off at the GOP (or businessfolk, or whoever) for that whole decades of persistent sabotage and hate thing, I guess.
That said, it also looks a fair bit like he doesn't give a shit if it is the same, so long as it can screw over the folks that have been fucking him over for the last basically ever. Empathy burns out pretty easily if it gets pissed on for a few decades, really...
Can I just say that if anyone, ANYONE ran on a platform of something like "Let's draw and quarter the CEOs of the Fortune 500 and hang their severed body parts in front of the NYSE as a warning", they'd have my vote in a heartbeat?
"Fuck the other tribe" resonates BEAUTIFULLY for me these days. I don't want "justice" or "fairness", I want total-war, scorched-earth REVENGE. Revenge for the last 20 years of my working life being largely for naught, and pre-emptive revenge for the next 20 years being just to avoid bankruptcy.
Sure. It'll do it for some people. Hell, I'm not
entirely against it -- I've mentioned before that I'd give good odds literally beheading most of our healthcare system's upper management would cause an improvement to said system, ferex -- though I'd hella' rather just do something that
doesn't involve explicit mass murder. Definitely past the point of having a degree of sympathy for the whole fucked for the last forever pass the pitchfork and torches thing. Don't really want blood but it's a fair bit past the point of understanding the allure.
I'm just pretty damn sure there's a real damn big portion of the potential democrat/leftwing coalition that would be notably turned off by moving towards that sort of thing. End of the day there's a lot of folks that really just kinda' don't like that sort of shit, and turning away from it is a notable portion of why they consistently
don't vote R. Plenty of room in regards to policy inclination, but scorched earth rhetoric is hella' more likely to burn Ds, as much or more than it rallies them, than is worth risking shit on. End of the day we need catharsis like we need decency, to exactly the point it wins elections/gets the conservative wing of the country to stop actively shitting on everything.
... and while folks pissed enough to stop giving a shit about much but hurting those that hurt them do seem to be growing, they're still a damn sight distance from being large enough in number to make up for what that'd repel. At the absolute least, you'll probably need another 10-20 years at minimum before it starts reaching that point. Enough for most folks over around 40-50-ish to start falling out of political relevancy. Until then, the moral high ground shit is going to matter, regardless of how loudly people screech about it not winning elections. The lack can still damn well lose them, too.