Reply #49: so many people believe this... [View All]

[NewJeffCT]

The RW has been pushing this meme for 30 years now and it has sunk into the mainstream.

I was in North Carolina last year on business and was surrounded by a bunch of people discussing politics and they all were nodding their heads in agreement when they said that the Democratic Party is so far to the left of where they were in the 60s and 70s that they can't vote Democratic now.

I'm not the arguing type, but wasn't universal health care part of the Democratic platform from the 1950s through 1992, and it's been off since 1996? That seems a pretty rightward shift...