tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3196943550145722814..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Who's winning?David Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-90456957730980751392013-03-02T09:49:08.487-05:002013-03-02T09:49:08.487-05:00Professor
Thanks for this post.
As you point out...Professor<br /><br />Thanks for this post.<br /><br />As you point out in the passage below, in large part it has been a bipartisan slide from the Democratic left too.<br /><br />"For half a century now the Left--the readers of the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books--have focused mostly on social issues like abortion and gay rights, and on criticism of US foreign policy, which has offered plenty to criticize. They have assumed that the economic achievements of the New Deal and Great Society were simply part of life, like the seasons, and worse still, they have assumed that everyone else felt so too. That is why we have no mass of Democrats just as determined to preserve those things as the Republicans are to destroy them. That is why Barack Obama has so foolishly compromised, time and time again, with Republicans who are determined to destroy him and everything he stands for..."<br /><br />I would add that the type of deal that got the ball rolling, after WW II, was what Dionne hailed as a great thing, calling it 'the vital center'. The cooptation of the Left by both the Right (ideologically), and the center, so to speak.<br /><br />all the best,<br />GMBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-48468567082800528782013-03-02T07:28:59.734-05:002013-03-02T07:28:59.734-05:00"They don't want America to be governed: ...<i>"They don't want America to be governed: they want a nation ruled by hedge fund managers, health insurance companies, the big processed food manufacturers, and above all, energy magnates."</i><br /><br />And they do this leading the mindless lambs to their own slaughter by getting them to believe they are their good shepherds and that government is the big bad wolfLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733155849517667884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-77834680495335347372013-03-02T02:36:07.099-05:002013-03-02T02:36:07.099-05:00"That is why Barack Obama has so foolishly co..."That is why Barack Obama has so foolishly compromised, time and time again, with Republicans who are determined to destroy him and everything he stands for"<br /><br />Obama hasn't compromised-he believes in dismantling the New Deal social programs himself. After all, only Nixon could go to China, correct?CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.com