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ashling

(25,771 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:23 PM Dec 2013

Blast from the past

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Blast from the past (Original Post) ashling Dec 2013 OP

Fucking Commie! Scuba Dec 2013 #1

Ike would be smack dab in the Democratic Party today. brush Dec 2013 #2

As I recall, both parties solicited him as a candidate for the '52 Election. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #3

Ike would be FAR to the Left of what passes for the Democratic Party today. bvar22 Dec 2013 #6

You know you maybe right. And that's sad. nt brush Dec 2013 #9

It is sad. bvar22 Dec 2013 #11

...and fighting not to be marginalized as "radical." DirkGently Dec 2013 #7

It's Just Been A Straight Veer Right For the Baseline Since Ike colsohlibgal Dec 2013 #4

+1 freshwest Dec 2013 #8

+1000 okaawhatever Dec 2013 #10

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2013 #5

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. Fucking Commie!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:45 PM

Dec 2013

brush

(53,784 posts)

2. Ike would be smack dab in the Democratic Party today.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:08 PM

Dec 2013

And don't forget his warning us against the "military industrial complex".

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

3. As I recall, both parties solicited him as a candidate for the '52 Election.

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:32 PM

Dec 2013

Actually, I'm old enough to remember stuff from that election. My uncles favored Douglas MacArthur, and I went with my family to hear Robert A. Taft, another hopeful, speak at the local movie theater in my small home town in northern Wisconsin.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)

6. Ike would be FAR to the Left of what passes for the Democratic Party today.

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:01 PM

Dec 2013

brush

(53,784 posts)

9. You know you maybe right. And that's sad. nt

Reply to bvar22 (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:50 PM

Dec 2013

bvar22

(39,909 posts)

11. It is sad.

Reply to brush (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 07:36 PM

Dec 2013

The "Working Man's Party" I joined in the 60s ( FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society)
is gone. The only Senator that even reminds me of the Democratic Party of the 60s is Bernie Sanders,
and he is an "Independent".

Elizabeth Warren is reawakening the old memories.
She sure sounds like an old time Working Class Democrat,
but I'll need to see more,
and whether the Party will rally behind her.
My cynical prediction is that the conservative DLC Party Establishment, while paying her lip service in public (because of her popular support) will Wellstone/Feingold her to the fringes,
and not help in her re-elections.

[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center] [center] [/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)

7. ...and fighting not to be marginalized as "radical."

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:37 PM

Dec 2013

Certainly any suggestion we might be spending too much on defense due to monied interests would be denigrated as "impractical" by much of our party today.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)

4. It's Just Been A Straight Veer Right For the Baseline Since Ike

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:50 PM

Dec 2013

It's been a multi faceted assault by the righties since the days of Nixon's racially coded "Southern Strategy". They went after everything with a multi faceted plan, creating think tanks to populate talk shows, going with Ailes "GOPTV" idea from 1968 with Fox News, consolidation of media so Rush is booming from 100's of channels coast to coast. All of this was set forth in the famous early 70's call to arms memo by Lewis Powell. It works because we have enough sheep in this country who won't or can't do their homework about their personal situations.