Smarmie Doofus
Smarmie Doofus's JournalThe old GOP was WAY to the left of where the RW of the DEM party is now.
Can you imagine Obama saying something like ( or even *quoting* ) what Eisenhower said in 1960 re. the "military-industrial-congressional ( "congressional" was in the original text; he should have left it in, obviously) complex"?
It's inconceivable. The reality is, he'd be describing himself.
As a party we DEMs still claim to champion labor. But where did that 1 billion dollars come from that just paid for the president's campaign ? It didn't come primarily from working people, I can assure you. And since it mostly came from corporate interests it's less "contribution" than "investment".
Money expects, and *gets* a return on its investments. That's how it got to be "money".
re. History: the under 50s think of "impeachment" as a circus having something to do w. a semen stained dress. Need I say more? It's a different mentality altogether.
At some point in time, the Nixon wing of the GOP was absorbed by the....
.... RW of our party and the attitude toward Manning among these neo-Dems is kind of a case in point.
There's also a generation-gap type thingie going on. People in their forties and younger missed VN-Watergate, etc etc etc and were brainwashed by the post VN revisionism with which the general public was swamped via gov't and ma$$ media in the 80's.
That revisionism is now their perception. ( I'm speaking in GENERAL terms. Not everyone under 50 was successfully brainwashed. But AS A GENERATION their brains are spic and span.)
