After watching Meet Press Clinton interview, I realized something

[Armstead]

96. I lived through it and I paid attention too. They helped to CREATE that environment

I'm 63 and I started paying attention in the early 70's, and observed the evolution close up.

I know about how difficult times were in the 1970's, and how "liberals" got blamed for it. And the emergence of the whole "greed is good" set of morals.

And I know all about the GOP right wing messaging and the corporate double talk. "We're forming a monopoly to protect competition." and "We're laying off thousands of people to protect jobs" and all the rest of it. And "We have to ship American jobs overseas so we can protect America's place in the global economy." And "Lower the taxes of millionaires because you too might be rich someday."

And the crap about Welfare Queens being the cause of the debt and deficit. And "Jesus wants you to be a a wealthy businessman."

But what I also DIDN'T see was a Democratic Party that was willing to fight back against that and represent the Truth. Or expose the basic nature of those lies.

Just the opposite. The DLC. helped to demonize economic liberalism. They were effusively saying "The Era of Big Government is Over" and praising Alan Greenspan,(an acolyte of Ayn Rand fer chrikeys sake).

I should emphasize not the entire Democratic Party. But those who tried to restore some true balance were dismissed by Democratic DLCers as "too far left."

That right wing movement and the hollowing put of the economy for the middle and lower classes and the selling out of government was AVOIDABLE. And it can be turned around now. But not if we keep repeating the same old stuff.