We need a new Democratic Party

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189. it was more than that though

it was the victory of Reagan, a landslide victory that also brought gains in the House and Republican control of the Senate. Reagan won every state but seven - Hawaii, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Georgia, Maryland, West Virginia and DC

Then Mondale got crushed in 1984 - took only Minnesota, and DC. and Dukakis did not fare much better in 1988, taking a mere 11 statres - Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Hawaii, DC, WV, Mass, New York and Rhode Island. Then with the victory of Clinton in 1992, it seemed to show that at least the DLC way wins elections, and Clinton became head of the party for 8 years making it more and more DLC.

Other things happened too - politics got more expensive, GE bought NBC and made the news there far more conservative. With the contract of Diamond Dan Rather, the $6 million man, being in the media became much more lucrative. No longer would journalists like Uncle Walter and Charles Kuralt care about truth and the common people, instead the media would be made up of 1%ers or wanna-be 1%ers, who knew which side their bread was buttered on.

And so on, both unions and manufacturing began a decline as Wal-mart and the Manpower Temp agency became the largest employers in the country. And so on. Chalmers Johnson provides a lot of detail in his book "Sleepwalking through History" but I found it far too depressing to read.