The only modicum of truth in the lady in the red dress's statement is on social issues, particularly gay rights. I'm not so sure if abortion hasn't gone backwards, and certainly nothing has been done on gun rights. I suppose if you consider not being prejudiced, we're trying to move to the left on that, but that too is a social thing.
On Economic issues, over the last 35 years, we've moved wildly to the right. I think at best Obama has accomplished a slight slowing of our movement to the right, and I mean ever so slight. We had 91% taxes in the 1950's--you could even make the case we've been moving right since JFK/Johnson's tax cut to 74%, or you could make the case McCarthyism was used to STOP worker improvements way back in the 1950's.
So what we have is a Democratic Party marching to the right, allowing themselves to be pulled along behind an ever radicalizing right-wing, for decades now, since Reagan. We've repealed fairness, no one observes antitrust laws, media is radically concentrated now, there are no real Democrats on television anymore, just a bunch of neoliberals. I hardly watch weekend shows, because they're so con-servative as to just irritate me. I listen to Stephanopolis, just to report on my Facebook page all the bull they espouse. We added the death penalty again, which is clearly right-wing.
The austerity, or Class Warfare against the poor continues.
No leftward movement as yet, no single payer, no free college, etc...Go Bernie! Fell the Bern!
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