Reply #48: the Democratic party [View All]

[Two Americas]

Are you familiar with the history of the Democratic party and with the programs of FDR? Are you unaware of the 30 year effort by the right wingers to dismantle every aspect of our government that once protected workers and the general public? Are you in support of that effort by them? Are you unaware of the hideous and immoral consequences of that, and the very real suffering as a result by millions of your fellow citizens?

There was a time when we did not put "regulation" and "reigning in big business" in quotation marks to mock and trivialize those ideas. The day when only the lost vehement pro-business conservatives continue to do so is rapidly approaching.

There is no need to re-invent the wheel here. Those familiar with the history of the Democratic party recognize exactly what Edwards is saying, and it does not sound like gobbledy gook to them.

You can mock populist gobbledy gook, but we will support that today or have much worse tomorrow—neo-feudalism or social upheaval. To deny that is to believe that somehow the United States is exceptional and immune to the forces of history, and that a country can allow the sort of income and wealth disparities that we now have in this country and not risk one or both of those unhappy consequences.