a lot of us have not changed much at all

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. I wonder if the Third Way crowd are waiting for those of us who remember the past

to die off, so that they can tell younger generations such fairy tales as:

1. Social Security must be destroyed to save it

2. We needed unions in the past but no longer do

3. Mass transit won't work here because Nature laid America out in one-acre residential lots interspersed with freeways and strip malls

4. Sorry, we don't have magic wands to stop the Republicans with (and we're unable to reform the filibuster, vote against bad legislation, or have presidents or governors use their veto power)

5. The Republicans were right about national security. Too bad about your civil liberties and all those dead brown people

6. We have to be nice to the job creators, or they'll send jobs to China (Oh, wait...)

7. The Republicans were right about privatizing education, because far be it from us to publicize the fact that schools in the U.S. are locally controlled and that if you have bad schools you need to vote in a school board that will change things

8. Free trade is great. Let the money and cheap, shoddy imports flow across national boarders. Let national laws be voided for corporate interests. Let First World jobs be destroyed. Give corporations free movement across borders! Free movement of people? Not so much.