Monday, June 26, 2017

Ed Notes Online: Chronicling 40 Years of Democratic Party Decline

Ed Notes Online: Chronicling 40 Years of Democratic Party Decline:

Chronicling 40 Years of Democratic Party Decline

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Raising money from Wall Street, from the drug companies, from health insurance companies, the energy companies, kept [Democrats] from their main contrasting advantage over the Republicans, which is, in FDR’s parlance, “The Democratic Party is the party of working families, Republicans are the party of the rich.” That flipped it completely and left the Democrats extremely vulnerable.... Ralph Nader 

There's a lot of Democratic Party soul searching articles since last week's election loss in Georgia. I'm going to post a few of the interesting ones.

Love him or hate him, Ralph Nader makes a lot of sense in this historical analysis of the 40 year history of Democratic Party decline.

The progressive Intercept has an interview with Nader by 


where he chronicles the stages in Democratic Party decline beginning almost 40 years ago:

Here are some of his Milestones of Democratic Party decline:


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