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by larl 2948 days ago
Yeah, ever since Bill Clinton the democrats have been Republicans, and the Republicans have been ... something new.
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Let's not be stupid... The repeal of Glass Stegal was the "Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act" in 1999. Those are 3 republicans in the name of that act. It was a republican house and Senate and some of the last months of the Clinton administration AFTER Bush had won election. It would've been passed under Bush but this way Clinton was able to also get some policies the Democratic party wanted in a lame duck session before he left.

False equivalencies do not make both parties the same.

Don't forget the Commodities Futures Modernization Act when assessing the damage of 21st century banking and the, ahem, "Great Recovery"....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernizat...