Reply #17: FDR stood up to Republican criticism, and by doing what was right for Americans, he [View All]

[tblue37]

created a strong liberal consensus all across the country. Even Eisenhower, a Republican president, was quite liberal compared to most of our current Democrats. Heck, even Richard Nixon was more liberal than most of today's Democrats! The baseline, the accepted "center," for the country was liberalism, so the "right" was just to he right of that center, which is far to the left of what is being called "centrist" or "moderate" today.

BTW, I get really disgusted when even the people on our side--including many progressive bloggers--use "centrist" and "moderate" as labels for rightwing hacks like Lieberman and Nelson. We need to squawk about that whenever we hear it. The RW squawks about everthing, but as someone recently said, the left doesn't have the same organized outrage infrastructure. We need to build an "outrage infrastructure" to make noise whenever the MSM or some clueless politican says or does something that goes against everything we believe.