On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Doug Henwood 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.
We're not disagreeing here at all at all if you look at my whole post. The left side of the debate has been truncated (things that used to be commonly discussed are now unthinkable to propose). The right side has been supercharged (things once on the fringe are now on the evening news).
Michael