The Way Forward
In reply to the discussion: Act like Democrats. [View all]dpibel
(3,487 posts)Placed in the canon. Not shot from, or with, a cannon.
Other than that, it's a very interesting list featuring some fictitious people, e.g., the pot smoking defense lawyer who would fight "the man." Someone sort of like that may have existed once (certainly not, to name a famous name, Kunstler), but to say that was somehow the Democratic party is downright fatuous.
And I'm extremely impressed with the assertion that working class people were not threatened by Barack Obama. As Charlie Pierce would say, "Please to be pulling the other one."
And the idea that Clinton was some kind of populist, or FDR (or JFK or LBJ) Democrat is just plain a hoot.
Not going to take the time to line-item this, but I'm thinking there's a great deal of stereotype and myth here, and not a whole large amount of supportable assertion.
Folks pumping their fists...Jesus.