Orange Confession: "My gun collection compensates for a small penis."
Orange Complaint: "I had to share a public restroom with a transgender person!"
Orange Bullshit: "All 1.8 billion of the world's Muslims are personally responsible for 9/11."
Orange Scary Underside: Ann Coulter.
Orange Evil Conspiracy: Replace the U.S. Constitution with Leviticus.
Orange Apocalypse: Rapture, Tribulation, Second Coming as foretold 2,000 years ago by Tim LaHaye.
Orange Founding Fathers: The Spanish Inquisition. The Confederacy. Mussolini.
Orange Shock Troops: The Alt-Right.
Purple: Bipartisan Neoliberal Consensus
Purple is Wall Street, Silicon Valley technocrats, Pentagon contractors, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Real Estate, media conglomerates, Democratic and Republican politicians who run errands for them, and the narrow spectrum of ideas they espouse.
If you're a frequent guest on MSNBC, you're probably Purple. If you're too big to fail, you're definitely Purple.
Purple is where Red and Blue overlap in their dedication to corporate profit, power, and privilege. Some might balk at placing the two major parties in the same bin, but partisan bickering often obscures the fact that the mainstream of both parties tend to agree on neoliberal premises that underlie sharp surface differences.
Democrats, for example, want to keep Obamacare while Republicans want it repealed, but both agree that guaranteed hefty profits for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries must remain a primary goal in any health care plan.
In other words, the fierce debate between Ds and Rs concealed a competition between two Purple factions over the best way to satisfy corporate lobbies and hold the fort against demands for Medicare For All.
In the early 1990s, President Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council embraced the Reagan Revolution when they decided that chasing after support from the One Percent was more important than serving the party's traditional constituencies. Hillary Clinton carried her Purple credentials into the 2016 election.
The GOP, before Mr. Trump and his fellow Orangistas gained the upper hand, used to represent a purer shade of Purple. Democrats favor stand-alone progressive agenda like women's reproductive rights, same-sex marriage rights, gun control, and some basic environmental protections. Overall, however, Dem leaders are committed Purples. The power of behemoth banks, anti-worker trade pacts, bloated military spending, endless war, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance are all safe when Dems control both the White House and Congress.
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