Thomas Franks, the Clintons and "phony" Democratic populists in the New Gilded Age

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155. I hadn't noticed who I was replying to.

Hi, Dragonfli. I agree about FDR. Indeed, around the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, the elongated lump, Dick Gregory, played some footage of candidate JFK on the Meet the Press.

When asked why he thought Democratic would be good for the economy, he said something to the effect that it had been Democrats who had saved capitalism in America. He didn't look too happy to be saying it and he lowered his voice, but he said it.

The Great Society, I believe, was to stave off a possible revolution. I posted on this thread to Koko more about that.

I don't know that we will be getting rid of capitalism any time soon. However, I don't think even DU today is the DU I started reading a few years ago. More posts against the DLC types. During Obama's first administration, it was about the Cat Food Commission, the Grand Bargain Committee and exactly how much they might cut Medicare and Social Security. Now, Hillary is trying to figure out how to convince people that she is not part of the income equality problem without putting her foot in her mouth. So, there is a shift. I really do think that OWS made a difference.

The anemic recovery, too. Oh, sure, Wall Street's great, but Main Street's working two and three jobs--if lucky enough to get any job at all.

As for solutions. Massive economic boycotts are one possibility, if we could swing that. (I think the harder part is convincing a lot of people that something needs to be done, but I think they are on our way to that.) Another is the one Iching just reminded us of on this thread. Go local. We have a lot better chance of getting something done in a city or town than in D.C. Things like that.

Indeed, I wish DUers would talk more about that than whether Bubba was a good President or our current lame duck is the best President in all US history or not. Both issues are moot at this point, in terms of our future.