1972 Democratic Party Platform is so progressive as to be off the scale today

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42. I did not know that Noam Chomsky said that.

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I did not know that Noam Chomsky said that. I feel somewhat vindicated now. I have said for years that Nixon was more liberal that Obama, and I was laughed at for saying that.

It seems the only things Nixon is remembered for is the southern strategy and Watergate.

People forget that Nixon (from http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/641730/if_nixon_were_alive_today,_he_would_be_far_too_liberal_to_get_even_the_democratic_nomination ):
- implemented the first significant federal affirmative action program.

- oversaw the first large-scale integration of public schools in the South.

-advocated comprehensive national health insurance (single payer) for all Americans.

- created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Office of Minority Business Enterprise.

- and other ideas now considered extremely liberal.

Nixon also indexed Social Security for inflation and created Supplemental Security Income. (Remember a few years ago when Obama offered to cut social security payments to the elderly. Unforgivable, even if he is a Democrat.)

If people remembered the recent past, say 50 years, they would realize that a living minimum wage, low college tuition, decent paying jobs, a clean environment and other ideas now laughed at as impossible, not only are possible, they were the reality here in the US within the last half century.

Reaganomics changed all that. Because everyone in the US under age 50 has worked only under Reaganomics, many don't realize what is possible.