Right-Wing follies.

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interesting analysis of Dem Presidential election history; timeline stops at Carter, though

Will the Democrats in this election learn from their progressive past
or repeat their centrist mistakes?

STORY BY PAUL ROCKWELL


Democrats can always find a way to blow a national election. As Michael Moore puts it: “We cannot leave this 2004 election to the Democrats to screw it up.”

To make matters worse, as a candidate for president, Senator John Kerry is a centrist.

Ever since the demise of the once-progressive Johnson administration in 1968, when a lawless war in Vietnam destroyed the hopeful War on Poverty, centrist Democrats have blamed the misfortunes of the Democratic Party in national politics on excessive liberalism, on progressive politics that appear too radical for the general population.

Centrists claim that only by moving the party to the right, even to the point of co-opting nationalism and military postures of the Republicans, can Democrats regain the White House.

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