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In reply to the discussion: It's Al From's Democratic Party..the rest of us just live here. The takeover. [View all]merrily
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I recently started to say to an older woman, "They say Mondale lost because he was a liberal, but". That was as far as I got because she laughed right over me and said, "Mondale was not a liberal." Wiki describes him as centrist. His policies were centrist.
Those elections were not lost because either candidate was a liberals. Before McGovern was even nominated, Democrats knew whoever ran against Nixon was going to lose. Reagan was a phenom of a candidate; the Carter-Mondale administration was troubled. Anyway, it's neither 1972 nor 1980.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=3950141 (woo me with science: It's not 1972 anymore.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778825 (demwing: This ain't 1972).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778872 ("What about Mondale?" indeed: Candidate Reagan)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778873 ("What about Mondale?" indeed: 1976-1980)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12779277 ("What about Mondale?" indeed: Walter Mondale)
Oh, and Carter did not lose the election because Kennedy challenged him. Kennedy challenged Carter because Carter was going to lose the election. Had Kennedy won that primary, with the way that the Kennedys were revered then, the chances of a Democratic win would have been much greater.
The memes we are fed take the country right because that is what they are designed to do. And they are undemocratic, because the more say we the people have, the less the country will go right. Reject these plutocratic, undemocratic memes at every turn.