How the Left Cut Down a Democratic Frontrunner

[fredamae]

67. IMO-Clinton's Pres Was

a major shift with NAFTA/CAFTA and the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 that opened the door for Bush and Co to crash the economy.

I believe the New Deal was a furthering shift to a progressive party for that era in that time toward the Dem Party we know now. (or knew before the corp dems screwed us)
Remember, Democrats used to be assholes to the nth and the Republicans were the "nice ones".
That all said, Hell-I'm in the ongoing learning curve myself-I was a "single mother" who was "had by Reagan" and barely survived that time...In the '90's-I was still in that situation but admittedly doing much better...but still didn't have time to really delve into politics...but when GW announced His candidacy, I decided I'd better start paying close attention. I didn't like his dad much and the stories about Gw scared the living hell out of me...turns out I was right to be afraid.
I think LBJ was misunderstood, Like PBO he was handed a freeking mess with the VN war and a faltering economy also--he knew how to herd delinquents in congress tho, so I'm not sure about his fear of MLK et al ...I don't know that I'd call him a liberal, but he was a progressive, imo. Maybe not all that to all people-but more so in my opinion.
I believe we can quash the current oligarchy-it will take time and imo--it will take people who don't normally agree on much getting together in agreement on this huge and important factor---because we can't solve the rest of the disagreements and our problems unless and until we get Money out of the equation, imo. That's the hard part cuz right now--they're focused upon keeping us segregated from one another by constantly telling us diversity and differences matter most so that we'll keep on angrily hating those who are not just like "us".
Welcome to my world of learning-