Reply #24: And the Dems back then

[PATRICK]

after Watergate, let the opportunity slip with the same practiced trepidation mixed with purity and mixed with old GOP allure, as they continue to exhibit today. The RW roused the lower classes even if they had to deal with nutjobs. The Dems whined they couldn't raise money from ordinary folk- and apparently didn't try or know how to deal with sane people. They acted like post FDR Dems, splitting in cautious retreat and counting that as wisdom. Nixon's deal, slinking off, left evil unanswered. His cronies even came out of prison onto talk shows and book deals while others are ruling over fascism today.

Yet this struggle has been going on since the inception of the nation. Money, slavery, rights, the development of a new aristocracy versus the middle class. Industrialization just made the stage new and larger. Whatever Washington and the others warned against slowly comes to pass and does not go away. So taking a broad view means we need another revolution and constitution and not go it alone in the world, but what will happen will be messier by fits and starts in a volatile globe on that should be on life supports.