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In reply to the discussion: Seems like I have some fences to mend [sorry, long!] [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)I'm gratified to admit that the subject of your sig line, Senator Warren, fortunately did not contribute to the onset of that great decline of 1993 (which of course, sprang full blown from the head of Medusa; things were going just swell till then, during the twelve years of Ronald Reagan and Bush père, and of course, now, the intervening eight years of Bush fils). No, she was not a part of ushering in that shameful era of moderation ... because she was a Republican still in 1993. Whew. Sure dodged a bullet on that one.
And thank goodness for it, because, as she explains it, "I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets." It was only at age 46, when a "moderate Democrat" had been in office for a bit, that she came to her senses and changed to the "new" Democratic party (slow bloomer, or something). No Marxist shilly-shallying there.
I just point that out because, considering myself more of an old-timey, lifelong liberal Democrat, I wouldn't want to see you fly too close to the sun. All's I'm saying, in my folksy, fence-mending way, is ... don't get caught in the rain again.