On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> In the 60s, the liberals in both parties talked about full employment and free health care while conservatives spouted ludicrously paranoid communist conspiracy theories and demands to go back to the 19C in terms of the welfare state and regulation.
No, that was the fringe of the Republican party. Goldwater got creamed in 1964, and it was 15 years before the right really recovered. Nixon had his crazy side, but, you know, he gave us the EPA and visited China. Ford was quite moderate. The GOP is now, almost without exception, completely fucking insane.
Doug