[lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom

[Seth Ackerman]

Doug Henwood wrote:

 > Nathan Newman wrote:
 >
 >> If you gave me the choice of the political makeup of the Democrats 
in 1937
 >> or 1965 or the politics of today's Democrats, but with the total numbers
 >> from 1937 or 1965, I'd keep today's Dems in a heartbeat.
 >
 >
 >
 > Nathan's right about this. It's long been an article of left faith 
that the Dems have moved to the right, but that depends on your point of 
comparison. If it's the early 1970s, maybe. If it's just about any other 
time in American history, the case is much harder to make. The party of 
the 1930s and 1950s was full of reactionary southern racists.
 >

Whenever I hear this argument, I always want to ask: What if you 
compared Northern Dems from 1965 to today's Northern Dems?

Seth