2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)I told you that REPUBLICANS cast more votes to pass the Civil Rights Act, though... and that kind of ruined your meme re: Democrats.
This fiction that We Were So Much Better Back Then is just that--fiction.
We are better NOW--we have a party that actually looks a bit more like America. We still have a ways to go. We need more women, more people who are black and brown and Asian/Pacific Islander, more people who are not Xtian, more people who have "no religious preference," more young people, more disabled people, more gay-and-out people. More people from all walks of life--rich, poor, rural, urban. We are more diverse now than we've ever been. We can do better, we can do more, but we're better now than we were in 1964 when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
You can count the black guys at the signing of the doggone Civil Rights Act on the fingers of ONE hand...and where are the women? It's like playing Where's Waldo! smh!