Reply #40: The new deal reform era was vastly more left wing than now. [View All]

[Warren Stupidity]

The social agenda fizzled out in the cold war nonsense of the 50's and 60's, reached a crisis as Johnson both pushed it forward with his Great Society programs and wrecked the party FDR put together over civil rights and vietnam. The wreckage over civil rights was inevitable, the wreckage over vietnam was idiocy. The progressive wing of the party, defeated at the polls with McGovern, pretty much abandoned the party to the corporate asshats we are struggling with now.

Truman was proposing national health insurance, we still can't get one 'annointed' candidate to propose anything other than corrupt mandated private insurance purchase programs. The corruption at the national level is at least as bad as it was in the last quarter of the 19th century, if not far worse.