07-16-2017, 11:08 AM
All fine and dandy, but it honestly frustrates me. What we are going to see with this is a further shift of both major parties to the right, especially on economic and social policy issues. I'm not talking about civil rights issues and individual liberties like we see conservatives present their frustration about most often. But the way the parties have shifted since the end of the New Deal style of Democrats has been to the right on economics and social programs. Folks like Mr. Schneider making this move are a result of this, because the GOP has shifted further to the right as well, but this just means it is going to make it harder for the Democratic party to get back to the way it was in the first half of the twentieth century.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
