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

[RichVRichV]

297. Well of course we don't want to go back to the 50's.

What we want is to reapply the economic model that built the middle class from the 40s to the 70s, and expand it for everyone. Then combine that with social gains and try to implement FDRs second bill of rights for everyone. I'm talking high union membership, high minimum wage and median wage, high top marginal tax rate, high infrastructure spending, peace time military spending, ending the war on drugs, demilitirizing the police force, applying proper citizen oversight on the police, ending for profit prisons, continuing social gains, eliminating pay inequality, etc.


If you want to call us on the left dreamers, or naive, or trying to do the impossible then that's a fair critisicm (at least until we succeed). But we're not evil, we're not the enemy. We don't want to go back to white men prospering at the cost of everyone else. That would be the right you're thinking of. We want to see everyone succeed. And there is nothing preventing it from happening except the will of people. Peoples minds can be changed given time. Progress happens when enough minds change their point of view.


Only looking forward is pointless. If we never look to our past then we have no way to measure what we did right, what we did wrong, and where we can improve ourselves.