If HRC is nominated WITHOUT a primary challenge:

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143. What??? "Today's Democratic Party is the Republican Party of the 1980s??"

I don't think ANY Democrat would find it "OK" to let people die wholesale from AIDS and not put some government muscle into research. I don't think ANY Democrat would regard HIV as a "punishment from God for being gay." I don't think ANY Democrat would snark about "welfare queens" (hint hint that racist Reagan meant BLACK welfare queens, doncha know) nor would they insist that catsup was a vegetable in a school lunch.

And that's just for starters.

You need to go back to the history books--there's a lot you're forgetting about the eighties.

And you're forgetting a lot about the sixties, too--it was a Democrat who dug us deeper and deeper into a war that got bigger and bigger and bigger, culminating in the death of 58K service members and countless wounded, many quite grievously. The unrest and demonstrations were quite extreme -- anyone who lived through the "Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" era won't forget it anytime soon. How successful were progressives back then? Answer--not VERY. When a visibly uncomfortable, slimy and shifty-eyed guy like Richard Nixon can swing an election at the end of that decade, it's apparent that the progressive agenda wasn't ready for prime time on the national stage.

This failure to launch continued into the seventies, as well. Look up the phrase "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts" and you get an idea of how sunny the progressive agenda was. Even when Democrats were able to elect a President, it was a conservative southern Democrat with a religious mindset--and he only lasted one term.