Reply #46: but you leave out a big part of that history [View All]

[RainDog]

...which is that moderate, generally northern, republicans have aligned with democrats to pass necessary legislation while those now identified as the DLC (southern democrats) obstructed legislation.

the problem, honestly, is the backward ideology of the south. -- I'm from the south, so this is not someone from another region spelling a lesson - this is a truth.

To counter the problems of the south, the govt. needs to remove religious conservatives from positions of power in appointed offices and stop funding religion through govt - a matter that is unconstitutional anyway.

that way, the populists of the south will have to run against those who actually create problems for them - unregulated capitalists.