Putting the politics of Sanders, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez in an historical perspective [View all]

[billpolonsky]

"Lazy journalists, milquetoast Democratic strategists, and citizens of curiosity and conscience should take note that the illuminative story of domestic politics is not how the prominence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the popularity of Warren and Sanders, is proof that the Democratic Party has drifted off the edge of the “far left,” but that the far right has so thoroughly succeeded in moving the country’s political culture away from the center that the moderate policies of the 1970s now apparently resemble Fidel Castro’s revolutionary agenda."

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/26/the-conservatism-of-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/?fbclid=IwAR077P6lIvrbwFQjQmZ5R_-qnlq1O_OkGbq0rBjzawb7Uekz0-WXQtXxE2Y