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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 10:59 AMOriginal messageCan Someone Post A List of Significant Achievements That The Left Has Done In the Past 30 Years? And by achievements, I do not mean getting someone elected to office. What I mean is something akin to what the labor union movement did in the early 20th century, or what the Civil Rights movement did in the mid 20th century, or the Feminist movement, or the environmental movement did in the late 1960s and early 1970s.What has the Left done about the assault on the middle and working class?What has the Left done about poverty?What has the Left done about health care?What has the Left done about trade?What has the Left done about ending discrimination against the GLBT community?I would like a list showing some major economic, social, and political accomplishments within the past 30 years that would make the Left a force to be reckoned with politically.I will give you one accomplishment in the past 30 years: ACT-UP and other such groups that put public pressure on the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations to address the AIDs crisis. They took to the streets. They marched. They protested. They stopped traffic. They challenged authority and they got significant results. I will give you that one, but I don't consider it 100% Left. Yet, it is an example of what I am talking about.Finally, answering my post with questions like, "What has the DLC done?" or "What has the Dem party done?" are not answers to my post. In fact, they're an admission of inaction. I'm talking about what the American Left has done politically in the past 30 years to make it a force that cannot be ignored.
Ron Green (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 11:31 AMResponse to Original message3. Unfortunately the Left has not even kept the Center from being pushed to the Right. Let's face it: A thoughtful and complex policy message can never prevail against a fear campaign. There's just no solution to this.
L0oniX (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 12:37 PMResponse to Reply #317. Dems and repukes are part of the same coin owned by corporations.
depakid (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 12:09 PMResponse to Original message7. Bottom line of course is that if policy makers had listened to progressives and those with track records of getting it right- as opposed to corporate right panderers passing themselves of as self appointed "pragmatists," America wouldn't be in the sorry shape its in- and Republicans would long since have been relegated to the fringe where they belong- rather than in position to take back the House and make big gains in the Senate.Other more successful nations did this- America didn't- and under this administration and Senate, still won't.And so you continue your inexorable decline.
spoony (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 12:30 PMResponse to Original message11. Just another left-bashing thread from you. It's the same shit you posted yesterday. You're just spamming now.
Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 12:33 PMResponse to Reply #1113. Why Is It Okay To Have Hundreds of Obama Bashing Threads, Yet It's not okay to have threads bashing the left. Also, I see that you cannot really answer the questions of my original posts as well.
Ron Green (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-09-10 11:31 AMResponse to Original message3. Let's face it: A thoughtful and complex policy message can never prevail against a fear campaign.
7. Bottom line of course is that if policy makers had listened to conservatives and those with track records of getting it right- as opposed to Democrat RINO panderers passing themselves of as self appointed "moderates," America wouldn't be in the sorry shape it's in- and Democrats would long since have been relegated to the fringe where they belong.
Remember when Ronald Reagan was President, we had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. With obama as President, we have no hope and no cash.**Not mine
