34 decades of Rep dominance?

[Charles Brown]

Sounds like the New Deal
and Liberal reforms are being rolled back to me.
This is only some of the historical-
economic evidence that
reformism alone will not
work. Public housing, Headstart,
Public Works, labor rights and
more have all been cutback,especially
for the last 18 years. The ruling class
eventually takes them
back, when the working
class falls asleep.

34 decades of Rep dominance
would be 340 years. I can
imagine the Rev. before then
real easily.

Charles Brown

 
>From the market to the Marxit.


>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 09/12 11:29 AM >>>
Max Sawicky wrote:


>It might be simply that Clinton is the last
>obstacle to a complete monopoly of power
>for the Repubs.  If we get a 60% R Congress,
>you will see a flat tax, Soc Sec privatization,
>Medicaid turned into a block grant (ending the
>entitlement), abolition of taxes on capital
>gains and estates, and much else that you
>don't see now.

As Michael Barone pointed out after Clinton's re-election, between the 1992
and 1996 elections, the Dems lost 12 Senate seats, 60 House seats, 11
governorships, and 500 state legislative seats. "No Democratic president,"
Barone said, "has seen such harm come to his party since Grover Cleveland
in his second term 100 years ago - and that was followed by 34 years of
Republican dominance." And Clinton is often described as the most
conservative Democratic president since Cleveland.

Doug