Quoting MSNBC's Countdown, the 1936 Socialist Party platform is now, 60 years later, the law of the land. Hmmm, progress?
Not hardly. <!--break-->Take a look at the 2000 and (brand new) 2004 red/blue presidential election map and notice:
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<li>the country is predominately "conservative" -- whatever the hell that has <i>come</i> to mean; and</li>
<li>the conservative/liberal split is uniformally a division of urban and non-urban populations.</li>
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What we are witnessing is the crest in a multi-generational wave of social "reform" that dates to a time prior to the so-called new deal. The near future will be characterized by later historians as a time of slowing down and rolling back programs that embody the socialist doctrines and returning instead to the classical solutions that created these States united in America.