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Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

8. Excellent analysis

Reply to RainDog (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 10:25 AM

Feb 2013

the article that generated the OP is a right-wing fantasy, painting a cartoonish portrait of thhe Big Red Menace posed by those who favor universal health care, deep Pentagon cuts, and equitable tax structures. And the current DC Dems don't even come close to representing us. The only thing we're "unified" on is that the current Republicans are far worse.

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Left 3.0: The Extraordinary Transformation of the Democratic Party [View all] Redfairen Feb 2013 OP

warning DonCoquixote Feb 2013 #1

this author isn't all that great RainDog Feb 2013 #2

Good analysis Raindog fasttense Feb 2013 #4

This goes back to FDR and his vps RainDog Feb 2013 #7

I agree, the OP is comforting business as usual fairy dust. nt bemildred Feb 2013 #6

Excellent analysis Doctor_J Feb 2013 #8

most of the democratic party is center-RIGHT. it only looks liberal because repubs are so FAR right. msongs Feb 2013 #3

The Hoover Institute is a far right propaganda factory Doctor_J Feb 2013 #5

You beat me to it--The Hoover Institute is home to such "lefties" as Condolezza Rice. Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #10

Corporatist propaganda, woo me with science Feb 2013 #9

In any country other than this one, the Obama administration would be considered Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #11

+1 The system is captured. The Dems are corporatists, too. woo me with science Feb 2013 #12

keeping in mind this is written By and for the very conservative Hoover Institute at Stanford- it is Douglas Carpenter Feb 2013 #13

the problem with such folks RainDog Feb 2013 #14

here's a good history of conservatism RainDog Feb 2013 #19

he says Obama is the "member in chief" of "the new left 3.0" ... really? Then his Left 3.0 is Bill USA Feb 2013 #15

I really hate to waste any time on this would-be profound thinker, but his writing and thinking is Bill USA Feb 2013 #16

Thank you! great observations RainDog Feb 2013 #17

"...posters of Stalin in drag" LOL!.... a bizarro image! Bill USA Feb 2013 #18