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His ideas were termed socialism by the right and yet it was his ideas that triggered the greatest leap forward in living standards in American history. Indeed the postwar era in the United States saw our manufacturing, education, health care, infrastructure, upward mobility, job security, and overall standard of living become THE ENVY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. We led the way in inventing new technologies, we led the way in defining human generosity and we led by example so well that EVERYONE in the world either wanted to come to America or BE LIKE Americans.
And nothing, NOTHING the right has done in the years since Reagan has EVER EVER duplicated that. It can't because the right wing doesn't offer anything except service to an aristocracy, and fear for the majority.
Conservatism has always had a welcome home as a function of liberal ideology. Core values like thrift, long term goals and planning, moral grounding, thoughtfulness and common sense are all important conservative values that almost all liberals possess and possess proudly.
But conservatism as a standalone political ideology IS DEAD.
Sanders channels FDR
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Conservatism has always claimed virtues it never possessed and a coherence never evident.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
I am frankly disturbed by the tenor of the campaign this year. Not so much on the Dem side, which is less crowded, but the blatant bigotry that seems to keep Trump and Carson at the top of the R polls. I really don't get it. We haven't seen this level of open hostility since George Wallace and Joe McCarthy. I don't think that is anywhere near an exaggeration. It appears that there are a number of others who agree with that assessment. The New York Times Just Compared Donald Trump To 'Joseph McCarthy In 1950'; Donald Trump and 21st-century McCarthyism; Donald Trump’s creeping fascism needs to be rejected - and these are relatively conservative editorial boards (I didn't include WSJ because Rupert Murdoch apparently hates Trump).
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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