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Edited on Wed Oct-18-06 07:57 PM by Ken Burch
We were on Vietnam in 1968. Arguably the Carter Administration was in 1980 with its insistence on an economic policy based on low inflation first rather than full employment first.
We were in the 90's, when we didn't introduce single-payer health care despite the fact that all the reputable measures of opinion indicated that people wanted it.
And we were in every campaign ever waged against Reagan, when the strategy was always to nominate a bland centrist and paint the Gipper as an extremist...a strategy that left us with a perfect 0 for 4 record.
Why is there still this insistence on timidity and conservatism, this idea that "we'll move AFTER the people move"?
Isn't it time to try SETTING THE TERMS OF THE DEBATE, for once?
We're going to need to when we take the House anyway, so why not now?
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