Americans need to know Democrats have always been the leading edge for progress and uniting us.On the other hand, Republicans always trying to divide us.The only issues they seem to carry about are taxes,how much money we spend on America,When's the last time they pass legislation that benefited all
Oh, I’m sorry, are we really assigning more credit to lawmakers passing something only after it becomes popular than to the social movements and activists on the ground that predated these policies by years?
Having been around for everything except women getting the vote, I would bet I have a better recollection about what was happening than you do for each of those occasions. And don't tell me LBJ wasn't a liberal, you may not recognize it as such, but he was.
With respect, the Clean Water Act of 1972 was not solely created by liberals, and not opposed by conservative politicians. It passed the Senate by a vote of 86-0. What is instructive is that having a clean environment was once a goal of both liberals & conservatives. Today’s GOP is not conservative.
I love that this is framed around liberalism and conservatism rather than Democratic and Republican. Ideologies don’t fit neatly into two parties, and there can be allies in both.
The people who opposed all these things are anachronisms of a bygone era that has no place in the modern world. I’ll never understand how so many Americans want to go back to the past.
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Oh, I'm sorry are we really doing this? Everyone is actually a super leftist and they all just forget to set their clocks on primary day?
You'd think I'd know these things already, having watched that show a ton