1972: Back to the future to unify Democrats via economic justice

1972 was remarkable in American politics because the most liberal candidate ever to win the Democratic nomination had the chance to really change America at a time when many FDR Democrats were still around to support him.
Take a look at George McGovern's platform:
Single Payer healthcare (Kennedy's Health Security plan)
Income redistribution through changing the tax laws to make corporations and the ultra rich pay their fair share.
Guaranteed minimum incomes for the nation's poor.
End racism.
not to mention ending the Vietnam War immedately.
Here is a link to his platform:
http://www.4president.org/brochures/mcgovern1972brochure.htm

Even more enlightening is McGovern's 1972 article on redistributing income and economic justice http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/05/04/george-mcgovern-on-taxing-redistributing-income/
One of his ideas was the The Minimum Income Grant:
"I propose that every man, woman, and child receive from the federal government an annual payment. This payment would not vary in accordance with the wealth of the recipient. For those on public assistance, this income grant would replace the welfare system. It has also been suggested that the national income grant could replace certain social security benefits."

Why bring this up now. Well Bernie Sanders clearly has similar ideas to those that McGovern ran on, and both Bill and Hillary Clinton ran McGovern's campaign in Texas that year. Their hearts were in the right place, and although both Clinton's drifted to the middle, there is hope that they are open to the idealism that motivated them to enter politics and support McGovern in the first place.