Reply #153: That's bullshit too [View All]

Those were the days -- ah, the GOOD old days (for real) -- when liberal really WAS liberal, by God, and NONE of us felt under-represented or unappreciated or harrassed.

As for Kennedy being a hawk, um, no. I wouldn't describe him thusly. One of the reasons they killed him is that he wanted and planned to GET out of Vietnam. Strong and SMART on defense is how I'd describe Kennedy and most other Dems as well.

the DU conventional wisdom that the Democratic Party was once a worker's paradisc of socialist thought is, like so many other DU beliefs, badly misplaced.

Well, that's overstated enough to morph into strawman territory, isn't it? That said, there was a time when social programs were not boogiemen issues. Remember LBJ? Does "the Great Society" ring a bell? War on Poverty? Headstart? Or how 'bout FDR? The New Deal?

You have a very strange way of remembering things AND of talking about your memories.

And as for this:

Foreign policy hawks -- gone.
Southern conservatives -- gone.
Socially conservative Catholics -- gone.

If Foreign Policy hawks mean Scoop Jackson and his protogees (all PNACers now), good riddance.

If Southern Conservatives mean racists like Strom Thurmond (once a Dixiecrat), then good riddance.

If Socialy Conservative Catholics mean homophobes and anti-abortion zealots, then good riddance.

And having said all that, just why do YOU stay here, dolstein?