General Discussion

I'm 79, about ten years older than he is, and I remember a time, not when that was exactly true, but when the consensus was that it was the case. Since then, I have learned that, certainly for the government all the time, and for individual citizens most of the time it cost less money to do the right thing. Anf therefore it is actually the idealistic Democrats who are also the most practical.

That's why it's always a Democratic majority which rescues an economy trashed by a Republican majority.



Prior to 1933 - well, actually prior to the Gilded Age, it often was Republicans who were idealistic. Lincoln for one. T. Roosevelt for another. While we had Tammany Hall.