Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Campaign 2016

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