2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You belligerently and repeatedly assert that this thread must be strictly about the seventies. You accompany these posts with insults to the intelligence of anyone who dares to disagree with you.
Allow me to acquaint you with the facts you are unable or unwilling to acknowledge.
The OP (usually taken as the starting point for determining what a thread is about) drew a contrast: How things were after the rise in corporate power, a process that began "{I}n the late 1970s," versus how they had been "{b}efore this, from 1932-1976...." That means you can't confine your attention to the seventies just because that limitation happens to suit your polemical purposes.
On the thesis of the OP, the Carter administration was something of an in-between situation. The OP marks the Democratic Party's more progressive era as ending in 1976. The parties' rightward shift is seen as taking full effect in the 1980s (Republicans) and 1990s (Democrats). If you want to refute that contention, you'll have to defend the Democratic Party of the 1990s as being more progressive than that of 1932-76.
Recursion tried to support that point of view with some actual analysis in #15, by citing changes in black incomes. I'm not persuaded, based on the overall differences between the two eras that I noted in #102, but Recursion was at least trying to have a reasonable conversation instead of relying on invective and intimidation.