oh puleeze... Bill Clinton was part of the DLC... MODERATE DEMS... It was the repubs who got dragged to the right when the repub leadership moved from the northeast to the south and west.
I think what we're having now is a debate on political set theory.
Today's younger, self indentified conservatives basically seem to want to end government as we've known it our entire lives.
Most of them seem to believe that the only thing government should do is oversee police powers, courts and the military.
Today's younger liberals seem to want the NEW DEAL government of FDR. Really that's not so much of a change from what exists today.
I don't think the Democratic Party has really changed its stated positions all that much in the last thirty years. They are still basically New Dealers.
If you believe that the self identified Republicans on this board are any indication of that party's current thinking, the Republican Party's rank and file are much further to the right than they were when I was a kid.
If NiXXon ran today, he'd be considered a radical leftist by the standards of many self identified conservatives, today.
Many of the boards so called conservatives on this board indicate that they think McCain is a liberal
by their standards.
Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and Ike would also be leftists according to
their political theories since theyd all done things that today's liberals approve of.
So the conservative movement has beome much more conservative than it once was, if history is our guide.
