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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)27. clinton did, duh
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And half of the Democratic party opposed the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 1/3rd of the GOP
Recursion
May 2016
#199
Yes, a big change that's occurred since World War II is the reversal of the parties' roles on race.
Jim Lane
May 2016
#208
You're imagining a world where Kennedy could win nationally without white southerners.
Recursion
May 2016
#209
Wow, you need to learn history. The Dems used to be way more liberal, on so many issues.
reformist2
May 2016
#195
I guess LBJ's Great Society plan was just a vast right-wing conspiracy theory.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#6
Is it at all possible that Great Society policies bore fruit a generation or two later?
merrily
May 2016
#35
No, they are not, except in someone's spin. What they want are Democrats who were not
merrily
May 2016
#54
Are you? Because the conversation seldom seems to move past berating people about
merrily
May 2016
#71
"We loves them huge corrupt banks"- WTF are you imitating with that vernacular?
bettyellen
May 2016
#211
The 1990'a, when high-wage manufacturing jobs left what would become the rust belt...
That Guy 888
May 2016
#101
your comment seems to imply that the 1990's raised only Black incomes-all incomes were raised
azurnoir
May 2016
#103
No it is not the only non-white income that is higher is Asian and as a group they are the highest i
azurnoir
May 2016
#115
why a chart showing only Black income let's see one that compares it white, Hispanic and Asian
azurnoir
May 2016
#118
well while I admire the word or powerpoint? work there of those charts albeit they are difficult to
azurnoir
May 2016
#121
In 1991 Blkack median income was $31, 369 per year in 2013 it was $34,598 per year
azurnoir
May 2016
#130
Do you think that data point was ignored and a different point used ...
1StrongBlackMan
May 2016
#174
I'm challenging a narrative in which people have cast themselves as the aggrieved heros
Recursion
May 2016
#179
Aggrieved Heros that they have; but for, an accident of birth, done nothing to earn.
1StrongBlackMan
May 2016
#182
And I think we're pretty effectively arguing it was *not* more progressive back then
Recursion
May 2016
#186
The economy was so fucked up in the seventies. Anyone who thought it was great is blowing smoke.
MADem
May 2016
#26
Thank god that dark age was swept aside by the mighty hand of Ronald Reagan, amirite?
Scootaloo
May 2016
#28
Republicans owned the White House for most of the seventies. Carter got 4 years out of ten. nt
MADem
May 2016
#36
Yes, we are--and once they finally shoved Nixon off the political map, they accommodated Ford,
MADem
May 2016
#74
I KNEW you'd be in this moronic thread! This kind of thing is right up your alley
Number23
May 2016
#96
Um, no...The Sixties was the decade of Civil Rights when "Dixiecrats turned Republican
whathehell
May 2016
#135
A greater % of GOP Congressmen voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats
Recursion
May 2016
#139
Great, but they didn't INITIATE it, did they? Nor have they 'followed up" on it, have they?
whathehell
May 2016
#143
I wasn't aware that economies built for all ethnicities required corruption.
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2016
#181
We have few real democrats today, the party has changed so drastically, and not for the better IMO.
RKP5637
May 2016
#3
And we had a dem president who imprisoned more blacks than any president combined.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#13
In the late seventies? You need to hit the books because I'm giving you an F in US History.
MADem
May 2016
#23
This thread is about the late seventies. Try, do, to stay on topic and follow the conversation. nt
MADem
May 2016
#29
Well, shrieking about pale-skinned penises isn't exactly the heights of intellectualism either
Scootaloo
May 2016
#32
Huh? What is that in aid of, and what does it have to do with the seventies, which is the thread
MADem
May 2016
#33
I don't mean to be rude, but did you not observe that the GOP owned six years of the seventies?
MADem
May 2016
#55
Sure I did. Yet here you are, happily running interference for those policies
Scootaloo
May 2016
#65
Many States supported Tough on Crime Policies including California, NY,etc, people elected Giuliani
JI7
May 2016
#86
Meantime, potentially black men voters were in jail because of the drug war disaster.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#88
But why did Clinton push for policies, incarcerating more black people than any other president?
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#94
crime is a real issue that needed to be dealt with, that black people get unfairly targeted is
JI7
May 2016
#95
But we have to be able to call out those who enabled that climate and Bill was an enabler of it.
RepubliCON-Watch
May 2016
#97
NO WOMEN? Try telling that to these terrific Dem Congresswomen from the 1970s
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2016
#159
Out of how many politicians? Your very "exception that proves the rule" reaching,
MADem
May 2016
#166
Please stick to the subject, which is NOT "general conditions in the 1970s"
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2016
#192
Which initiatives? None of the achievements you mentioned took place in the seventies.
MADem
May 2016
#194
Not only the middle class, but the poor. Hardly any politician even utters that word anymore.
merrily
May 2016
#45
Yes, I am. My parents were proud socialists who thought FDR was the greatest human being ever
Glorfindel
May 2016
#19
That's what's so sad and pathetic about this laughable "Underground" and its RW posters. nt
villager
May 2016
#77
Sorry your browser doesn't open to any other page--it's tough being a prisoner of Skinner, then?
MADem
May 2016
#80
We need a NEW NEW DEAL, and that era of Liberalism was not for white males only. Those are the
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#104
Yes, the Third Wave of Feminism started (and no, it wasn't just for white women)
whathehell
May 2016
#138
Bull. Shit. Unlike you, I suspect, I actually LIVED and WORKED during those times
whathehell
May 2016
#134
"comparatively positive"? There's a whole herd of bulls producing shit, you got there.
baldguy
May 2016
#144
Sure do, but their approach is very unlike what Bernie is trying to do. That is why they succeeded
tonyt53
May 2016
#126
Not one of them DOESNT go out of their way to show up in November and vote for the Dem
Actor
May 2016
#177