Fifties were a better time. We need to return to a better Democratic Party.

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295. Are you suggesting the turn of the decade from 1959-1960 marked some miraculous turning point?

It didn't. I was born in the 50's and remember the 60's perfectly well thank you. I remember MLK's speech and assassination. I remember Bobby Kennedy's assassination. I remember George Wallace and the race riots and the anti-war protests.

There was not some great die-off of bigoted jerks on 12/31/59. The same people who voted for Truman and Eisenhower, men who were far more progressive than any candidate in this election with the exception of Bernie Sanders, were largely the same people voting for Kennedy and Johnson. Truman proposed national health insurance and equal rights for all in 1945 and integrated the military by executive order in 1948. Eisenhower kept the top tax rate at over 70% and warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex.

And today were are witnessing a race in which a misogynistic, racist know-nothing asshole has about a 50-50 chance of becoming President and this person says people in the 50's were conservative, jerks and bigots? I've got news for you. This country is way more conservative and bigoted than it was in the 1950's and there are way more jerks as well.