Democrats -- Start thinking 1979-80.....The time is right. [View All]

[Armstead]

An energy crisis. Americans trapped in a Middle Eastern Country. Malaise. Economic woes. A political movement that went overboards and overstayed its welcome. A feeling of national impotence and an ineffectual president....

Sound familiar? That was the US in 1979 and 1980. And what happened as a result? A sea change in the political landscape.

IMO it's a big pendulum and we are rapidly reaching the point where the swing to the Right has either reached its' peak, or is about to. And, if the people on the middle-to-left side play cards wisely, it is ready to swing leftward in a mirror image of the last 25 years.

BUT ONLY if the Democrats are as savvy as the GOP was back then. The Republicans did not come up with Liberal Lite. They came up with the Reagan Revolution. A bold break with the previous conventional wisdom, and a "new vision."

The Big Swings of history are in our favor, if we are sharp enough to capitalize on it. But only if we offer a real alternative that's unapolegetically Liberal and progressive, and don't try to "fish in the GOP pond" (as Bill Maher put it the otehr night).