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In reply to the discussion: Why have Democrats embraced neoliberalism, anyway? [View all]Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Reagan gave them a credit card and did not tell them about the debt that will be due.
Bush the elder won by bashing Democrats on taxes and crime.
I never held it against Clinton that he had to be moderate (just as Eisenhower was in the middle as America did not want failed right wing policies in the 50's.). The country became selfish. The generation that lived through the depression/WWII was getting older.
The younger people had no memories of those struggles.
Obama began to move the dial to the left, the next Democrat will move America to the left just as Reagan moved us to the right.
Conservatism has run it's course.
For the record, I supported Carter and Kennedy deregulating the airlines and trucking companies, allowing them to compete
in a larger market.
At the same time, I never supported allowing commercial banks getting into high risk debt investments.