Reply #52: Agreed on some social issues

[AllentownJake]

Abortion, gay rights, civil rights, etc. A lot of people in congress would have been considered out of the mainstream 30 years ago and outright looney tunes 70 years ago. However those are issues that change with time. What was a societal norm in 1932 is not a societal norm in 2008.

The democratic party for the past 60 years has been for the most part on the front line of those issues. Harry Truman desegregated the army, LBJ signed the voting act and the civil rights bill etc. We have supported Row as a party and we have lead the charge for gay rights. We might not move as fast as we should but generally speaking we are the leaders on those issues.

William Jennings Bryant would be considered a right wing fundamentalist because of some of his view points. However on the issues of the freedom of the majority from the corporatist of his day, he would be in our camp.

That being said, on issues of the powerful vs. the powerless. The issues of corporate or business interest vs. the interest of the majority I believe over the past 30 years the democratic party has allowed itself to be corrupted by corporatist influence.

An influence that did not exist as strongly in 1932 or 1980.