Posted on 07/22/2021 3:59:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the "little guy" and distrust of the military-industrial complex.
The left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the "lucre" was self-made or inherited. The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. If the rich were self-made, they were deemed sellouts. A good example was '70s pop icon Jackson Brown's "The Pretender," with lyrics that railed about a "happy idiot" and his "struggle for the legal tender."
Democrats talked nonstop about the "working man." They damned high gas and electricity prices that hurt consumers.
Almost every liberal cause was couched in terms of the First Amendment, whether it was the right to shout obscenities, view pornography or bring controversial speakers to campus.
The Supreme Court was sacred. With a liberal-packed court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, progressive justices restrained the supposedly harebrained initiatives of hick right-wing populists.
Once upon a time, Democratic congressmen investigated the CIA and FBI seemingly nonstop. Progressive political cartoonists caricatured the Pentagon's top brass as obese, buffoonish-looking clerks with monstrous jowls. The "revolving door" was a particular leftist obsession. Democrats blasted generals who retired from the military, then went straight to defense contractor boards and got rich.
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“In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas”
same agenda - just now people see it was disguised as being for the little guy etc but really same agenda all along - telling people what to do, control, so that thety always have the upper hand/power over others.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
My take is the average Democrat does not want to acknowledge just how radical and unamerican their party has become. They focus only on certain aspects.
More likely, they remain loyal out of habit and because everybody else in their family or peer group is also Democrat. They accept all the negative stereotypes about “Countryclub Republicans”.
These are not dems anymore. It’s gone way far left. Used to be some common ground could be found. I think a long time ago both wanted the betterment of the people, they just had different ways to get there. Now they want to take everything.
Since Clinton and the introduction of “smash mouth” politics things have just gone downhill. The ‘party of the little man’ of my youth (Dems) is now the party of privilege and a grab bag of special interests (racial bias choir; homosexuals and all their brethren and so on). Meanwhile, especially through the outreach of President Trump, it appears that the Pubs are now the party of the downtrodden and those left out.
Sadly both parties have lose sense of fiscal reality but that is another story.
Democrats have always been punks.
It took me years to admit that, because Dad was a Dim.
He was foreign and did not realize what the Dims/Left/Communists stood for.
I remember some union hard hat workers giving me a good-natured ribbing on my George Bush bumper sticker back in the day.
I laughed, but explained to them about Gore’s anti-gun stance. They actually listened and seemed concerned. I’m not sure it they looked into it or if it changed their mind. But yeah - it isn’t their grandfather’s party anymore.
Yeah the old days: chasing strippers into the Tidal Basin, running off bridges and drowning staffers, needing to have body removed from their basement (in NJ), taking bribes from the FBI (ABSCAM), being in the KK etc.
Yeah, those were the good Dems. LOL.
Ted Kennedy the lion of The Senate and Klansman Bob Byrd as Senate leader......
I think you misspelled “Reagan,” though Trump is a very good man for a politician.
Nancy Pelosi has been the single greatest threat to this Republic.
Spot on.
the other side of that coin: The average Republican doesn’t want to admit how anti working class globalist cheap labor uber alles the the party has become.
Or is she also a mouthpiece for others she is evil
Kennedy would be to the right of about 3/4 of today’s Senate Republicans...
I was referring to JFK and not the "Swimmer".
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