2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Liberals aren't Democrats? [View all]Warpy
(111,254 posts)but liberals went out of power in 1969. It's why our wages suck, we never got single payer health care, why voting rights are chipped away, and why there have been so many dreary Republicans in office since then. Truman was right, given a conservative Democrat and a right wing Republican, people will vote for the real thing and they'll stay home rather than voting for the fake.
If you've looked at history in depth and breadth, you know the party has simply reverted to the majority, pro business, anti labor party it was before the Great Depression. Wage increases, when they've had the votes to pass them, have been parsimonious in the extreme and the country has pretty much been handed over to Wall Street.
The question is what we're prepared to do about this, since we will never have the funding the conservatives in both parties get without trying. All we have are numbers and the truth. We are overdue for a massive populist movement. The Tea Party is a symptom of that.
Keeping the party out of power by refusing to vote for business as usual that is killing us is not working.