Reply #57: it is amazing [View All]

[Two Americas]

You cannot take the positions of Lincoln on economic issues - let alone the positions of the great Labor leaders - without being accused of being some far left, purist, radical, fringe, dreamer, lunatic and every other smear and insult under the sun.

As the election approached, I spoke with and to hundreds and hundreds of working people in conservative rural areas. what I heard again and again was "we need another New Deal." The people are finally rejecting the right wing economic politics. Yet you would never know that by reading the threads here. The conservatives among us are waging a frantic and desperate rear guard action, I believe, against any and all expressions of economic populism, left wing politics or pro-Labor ideas. It is stunning to watch the public move to the Left as the activists, pundits, insiders are moving to the right.