Reply #48: Clinton had to deal with an electore that bought into Reagan's bullshit [View All]

We're still dealing with that electorate today. The Democrats shifting to the right on economic issues isn't entirely about getting big corporate donations. It is also because Ronnie Raygun convinced Reagan's a large chunk of the middle class into believing that poor lazy people were the cause of all of their problems.

What many people don't realize is that Americans still buy into this bullshit and if the Democrats were to go back to its pre-Reagan stances on economic issues, the middle class would probably once again abandon us in favor of a Republican who will blame it on poor lazy people.

Like it or not, the policies of Bill Clinton's administration reflected the views of the vast majority of Americans. If it's any consolation, The Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party spent almost 50 years trying to overturn the New Deal and couldn't even take a bite out of it until Reagan was elected. They had to complain about how Nelson Rockefeller's wing of the party was too liberal just like we complain that the DLC is too conservative.