2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is too extreme for America [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)For about 2 decades.
Ike who warned about the growing MIC would be destroyed on Fox News, Rush, and the GOP.
From his 1956 platform:
"We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needsexpansion of social securitybroadened coverage in unemployment insurance improved housingand better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people."
read it all:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/14/1336619/-Eisenhower-a-Liberal
And Hillary, who is beholden to the top financial institutions including the ones that abused the system and nearly destroyed the economy. And who is a war hawk who criticized Obama for not invading Syria years ago and voted for the Iraq war. She is a Thatcher doppleganger in every way. She would have in fact been too radical a right winger for many, including Ike, back in the day.
THIS is reality. What world are you living in?