The Democratic Party needs to confront its unresolved, 44-year-long phobia of McGovern if it is to have ANY credibility when addressing the set of problems now faced by this nation (especially on the economic front).

We now have an economy in which any any and all economic recovery accrues to the wealthy, who in turn can use such wealth to buy politicians on the open market and make "investments" in Congress to make themselves even wealthier.

One such politician, however, is NOT FOR SALE, wants to break that cycle, and has consistently advocated policies that could have prevented and/or ameliorated the problems that the nation now must address.

Alternatively, we can continue to quiver in fear of McGovern's shadow, and lose states like Michigan that have been particularly ravaged by these economic problems, where Rs have run riot on the state level the last few years, when during the general we hear "She negotiated the TPP before she was against it," "She took millions of dollars from the very same banks she says she told to 'cut it out,' " and so on, ad naseum.