How the Left Cut Down a Democratic Frontrunner

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62. Me, too.

Except I didn't get that Clinton was a major shift. I wasn't paying close attention until after Obama was elected. I thought getting Democrats (period) elected was all I had to worry about.

But, lately, I wonder if I didn't see it wrong all along anyway.

Was FDR really that liberal, or, after the Crash of 1929, were people like him and Joe Kennedy terrified of a people's revolution, like the ones that had at that time occurred fairly recently in Russia (1905, then 1917-23)?

Was LBJ a liberal (on domestic policy, anyway) or only afraid of what MLK, Jr and others were bringing to the forefront?


And, if so, are they ever going to be that afraid of us again, given how armed they now are and how surveilled all of us now are?

Even if I did not misread the New Deal or the Great Society, were they aberrations, or typical of the Democratic Party? (The New Deal began to be dismantled under FDR. The convention wisdom here, of course, is that the Republicans did it, but that is not entirely accurate and I don't believe that FDR vetoed any of the "dismantling."

I am not saying my musings are correct, but they are food for thought. Food for my thoughts, anyway.