Clinton's deregulation of the FCC? The Telecommunications Act of 1996?
Sen. Pressler, Larry [R-SD] (Introduced 03/30/1995)
That bill was the brainchild of Newt Gingrich's "Contract for America" Republican majority, my dear friend, and it was the next to final chapter in a process which started with Reagan's sunsetting of The Fairness Doctrine, and since you mentioned The Powell Memo, that etymology should not escape you.
Yes, Clinton signed the damn thing, because he knew he was up against a potential veto override.
And, to put a finer point on it, The Progress and Freedom Foundation, even put together the "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," a veritable call to arms for telecommunications deregulation.
"Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," Future Insight, Aug. 1994
Your approach, which in your own words, consists of
"If I see a political party begin to advance the concerns of the unsubstantial people and society as a whole, I’ll support them. As of now, I don’t see any." basically boils down to "Since I am not getting the perfect party or the perfect candidates, I'm going to do nothing and support nobody at all."
President Trump thanks you for your support.
Sorry, but that's the way it works these days.
You may not like it, I may not like it, but it doesn't change the arithmetic.
I'll say the same thing to you that I said to X Factor:
"Since I am indeed more of a liberal than anything else, the party that I see as having the potential to be responsive would be the Democratic Party, which is a party that infuriates the Hell out of me because at present, it is a spineless mish mash of Wall Street shills, corporate toadies, limousine liberal nimby's, Third Way appeasers and hypocrites.
But still, warts and all, they are more likely to help us get single payer health care, affordable higher education, marriage equality, an end to private prisons and the entire "school to prison pipeline", environmental responsibility, sensible basic gun laws, and a generally more acceptable approach to dealing with immigration, plus more.
Put it another way, they are not out to tear down the entire democratic process and install authoritarian fascist theocracy.
I didn't sign up for that crap.
And if you're going to play dumb and act like you don't know what that last item is, I'll know you're in flat out denial, and that's about you, not me, so you'll be debating your own reflection on that one.
Anyone else on this board that knows what I mean by "tear down the entire democratic process and install authoritarian fascist theocracy" might even click LIKES on this post if I am lucky, to indicate that they too know what I am talking about with regard to today's Republican Party."
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