So many of us have been accused on here of wanting a Glorious Revolution. Let's get out with it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

70. I'd like to look more closely at what happened in the Scandinavian countries

In the 19th century, they were a major source of desperately poor immigrants to America, but by the mid-twentieth century, they had some of the highest living standards in the world.

I know what the "before" and "after" pictures look like. I wonder what the process looked like.

Actually, I think that our process was derailed by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Both were advocating economic justice and were winning popular support for these positions (RFK had just won the California primary) at the time they were assassinated, only two months apart.

King's assassination was especially suspicious, since a no-account drifter like James Earl Ray somehow managed to fly to London first class--in an era when flying coach to Europe cost as much in real terms as business class does today.

But there are some real oddities connected with the RFK assassination, too, particularly the fact that the LAPD destroyed its records of the investigation, ostensibly to "make room." (WTF? Destroying the records of the most historically important case it has ever investigated?)

These assassinations really knocked the wind out of the progressive movement.