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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]
I am,and life was good.
In the late 1970s, as large corporations turned into transnational giants, they pumped huge amounts of cash into the political system. This largesse lured, first, the Republican Party, in the 80s, followed by the Democratic Party in the 90s, and precipitated a rightward political shift as both parties rewrote their policies to compete for the same corporate contributions.
Before this, from 1932-1976, the Democratic Party as a whole was far more progressive. The issues and approaches advocated today by Bernie Sanders were considered mainstream Democratic ideas by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and even many moderate Republicans. It was common to support strict financial regulation, liberal immigration, social services for the poor, and progressive tax policies.
Before this, from 1932-1976, the Democratic Party as a whole was far more progressive. The issues and approaches advocated today by Bernie Sanders were considered mainstream Democratic ideas by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and even many moderate Republicans. It was common to support strict financial regulation, liberal immigration, social services for the poor, and progressive tax policies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/there-is-a-moderate-republican-in-this-race_b_9704194.html
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And half of the Democratic party opposed the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 1/3rd of the GOP
Recursion
May 2016
#199
Yes, a big change that's occurred since World War II is the reversal of the parties' roles on race.
Jim Lane
May 2016
#208
You're imagining a world where Kennedy could win nationally without white southerners.
Recursion
May 2016
#209
Wow, you need to learn history. The Dems used to be way more liberal, on so many issues.
reformist2
May 2016
#195
I guess LBJ's Great Society plan was just a vast right-wing conspiracy theory.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#6
Is it at all possible that Great Society policies bore fruit a generation or two later?
merrily
May 2016
#35
No, they are not, except in someone's spin. What they want are Democrats who were not
merrily
May 2016
#54
Are you? Because the conversation seldom seems to move past berating people about
merrily
May 2016
#71
"We loves them huge corrupt banks"- WTF are you imitating with that vernacular?
bettyellen
May 2016
#211
The 1990'a, when high-wage manufacturing jobs left what would become the rust belt...
That Guy 888
May 2016
#101
your comment seems to imply that the 1990's raised only Black incomes-all incomes were raised
azurnoir
May 2016
#103
No it is not the only non-white income that is higher is Asian and as a group they are the highest i
azurnoir
May 2016
#115
why a chart showing only Black income let's see one that compares it white, Hispanic and Asian
azurnoir
May 2016
#118
well while I admire the word or powerpoint? work there of those charts albeit they are difficult to
azurnoir
May 2016
#121
In 1991 Blkack median income was $31, 369 per year in 2013 it was $34,598 per year
azurnoir
May 2016
#130
Do you think that data point was ignored and a different point used ...
1StrongBlackMan
May 2016
#174
I'm challenging a narrative in which people have cast themselves as the aggrieved heros
Recursion
May 2016
#179
Aggrieved Heros that they have; but for, an accident of birth, done nothing to earn.
1StrongBlackMan
May 2016
#182
And I think we're pretty effectively arguing it was *not* more progressive back then
Recursion
May 2016
#186
The economy was so fucked up in the seventies. Anyone who thought it was great is blowing smoke.
MADem
May 2016
#26
Thank god that dark age was swept aside by the mighty hand of Ronald Reagan, amirite?
Scootaloo
May 2016
#28
Republicans owned the White House for most of the seventies. Carter got 4 years out of ten. nt
MADem
May 2016
#36
Yes, we are--and once they finally shoved Nixon off the political map, they accommodated Ford,
MADem
May 2016
#74
I KNEW you'd be in this moronic thread! This kind of thing is right up your alley
Number23
May 2016
#96
Um, no...The Sixties was the decade of Civil Rights when "Dixiecrats turned Republican
whathehell
May 2016
#135
A greater % of GOP Congressmen voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats
Recursion
May 2016
#139
Great, but they didn't INITIATE it, did they? Nor have they 'followed up" on it, have they?
whathehell
May 2016
#143
I wasn't aware that economies built for all ethnicities required corruption.
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2016
#181
We have few real democrats today, the party has changed so drastically, and not for the better IMO.
RKP5637
May 2016
#3
And we had a dem president who imprisoned more blacks than any president combined.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#13
In the late seventies? You need to hit the books because I'm giving you an F in US History.
MADem
May 2016
#23
This thread is about the late seventies. Try, do, to stay on topic and follow the conversation. nt
MADem
May 2016
#29
Well, shrieking about pale-skinned penises isn't exactly the heights of intellectualism either
Scootaloo
May 2016
#32
Huh? What is that in aid of, and what does it have to do with the seventies, which is the thread
MADem
May 2016
#33
I don't mean to be rude, but did you not observe that the GOP owned six years of the seventies?
MADem
May 2016
#55
Sure I did. Yet here you are, happily running interference for those policies
Scootaloo
May 2016
#65
Many States supported Tough on Crime Policies including California, NY,etc, people elected Giuliani
JI7
May 2016
#86
Meantime, potentially black men voters were in jail because of the drug war disaster.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#88
But why did Clinton push for policies, incarcerating more black people than any other president?
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#94
crime is a real issue that needed to be dealt with, that black people get unfairly targeted is
JI7
May 2016
#95
But we have to be able to call out those who enabled that climate and Bill was an enabler of it.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#97
NO WOMEN? Try telling that to these terrific Dem Congresswomen from the 1970s
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2016
#159
Out of how many politicians? Your very "exception that proves the rule" reaching,
MADem
May 2016
#166
Please stick to the subject, which is NOT "general conditions in the 1970s"
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2016
#192
Which initiatives? None of the achievements you mentioned took place in the seventies.
MADem
May 2016
#194
Not only the middle class, but the poor. Hardly any politician even utters that word anymore.
merrily
May 2016
#45
Yes, I am. My parents were proud socialists who thought FDR was the greatest human being ever
Glorfindel
May 2016
#19
That's what's so sad and pathetic about this laughable "Underground" and its RW posters. nt
villager
May 2016
#77
Sorry your browser doesn't open to any other page--it's tough being a prisoner of Skinner, then?
MADem
May 2016
#80
We need a NEW NEW DEAL, and that era of Liberalism was not for white males only. Those are the
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#104
Yes, the Third Wave of Feminism started (and no, it wasn't just for white women)
whathehell
May 2016
#138
Bull. Shit. Unlike you, I suspect, I actually LIVED and WORKED during those times
whathehell
May 2016
#134
"comparatively positive"? There's a whole herd of bulls producing shit, you got there.
baldguy
May 2016
#144
Sure do, but their approach is very unlike what Bernie is trying to do. That is why they succeeded
tonyt53
May 2016
#126
Not one of them DOESNT go out of their way to show up in November and vote for the Dem
Actor
May 2016
#177