Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

The other side of it is that their world-view was formed in a very different context than what we are facing now, distributed labor forces and the mobility of capital outpacing the mobility of impoververished workers, plus the ability of capital to multiply independently of actual beneficial production, has been enabled by the tech explosion, with software that gives capitalists tools they only once dreamed of, but which the global financial and trade models are incapable of managing in a way that truly benefits our world and its inhabitants. The speed and tools of modern tech have made the capitalist beast so unruly and so much more powerful than the nation states that attempt to regulate it, that it is no longer, if it ever was, a force for good, and the whole world-view that bought into all of that is only applicable to an earlier, more innocent, time.

So I think the roots of the New Dem thing is in part the corrupting influence of capital and a capturing of the Democratic Party by capitalist interests, and is in part just an extension of what used to be considered a progressive position, where trade, expansion, multinationalism, was part of a great exportation and seeding throughout the world of a fairly idyllic and naive view of U.S. exceptionalism, and that view is still dominant in a lot of people's minds, such as our President, people like the Clintons, and a lot of people I know who I respect but who are coming to entirely different conclusions than myself about what path our nation should be on.