Morning Joe, Chris Matthews Was Right About Racist Reince Priebus

[johnlucas]

24. So THAT'S why he got shot!

I was born in 1976 so I wasn't aware of details like that.
Ironically trying to run a racist campaign got in the way of the Republican Party's new Southern Strategy & he had to be taken out.
THEY wanted to control that vote & didn't need any competition.

And George McGovern got beat THAT bad?!
No wonder the Democrats changed in the 1970s!
The party got split in the 1960s over Civil Rights Act on one side & the Vietnam War on the other leaving them easy prey for a reinvigorated Republican Party desperate to get back into the spotlight.

No wonder the New Deal legacy got stalled!
And they took out Jimmy Carter by making him look weak when he was just diplomatic & peace-seeking.
Ronald Reagan was put in to begin the earnest dismantling of that legacy.
Hence the air traffic controllers situation & the decline of the power of unions.
By the end of his term taxes on the rich were reduced from MAX 70% to MAX 28%.

And the Democrats desperate to win back some of those Southern bigots came up with the Third Way/Democratic Leadership Council stuff delivered by Bill Clinton.
We were looking for another FDR, another JFK & here comes Clinton who looks a lot like a Southern Kennedy.
But because Republicans controlled the agenda for so long by this point, Clinton had to play under THEIR terms.
We got compromised & were happy to get what we got from Clinton because the Republicans were far worse.

Even then Republicans couldn't risk a potential return of a strong Progressive policy hence the Lewinsky nonsense.
Vice President Gore was thus embarrassed to campaign with Clinton when he ran & came off stiff & artificial.
Some of us were looking for a strong fighter for social/economic justice & went to or at least considered Ralph Nader.
Gore's weak image along with a yearning for a fighter represented in Nader resulted in the election being close enough to steal...
...hence we get Dubya.

It all runs together. You just helped me piece together a little more of the puzzle, OldDem2012.
From a child I always wondered why things were never run right & it's because my whole life pretty much has been under Republican command of the national agenda.
Figuring out how they got the power they had helps me understand what's needed to break it.

If Obama goes strongly Progressive in his 2nd term, we'll break it.
THEY'RE gonna be McGovern this time.
John Lucas