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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting
monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political
system.
t was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington
looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected
Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who
had been swept into office on a promise to clean up government, end the
war in Vietnam, and rid the nation’s capital of the kind of corruption
and dirty politics the Nixon White House had wrought. Richard Nixon
himself had resigned just a few months earlier in August. But the
Watergate Babies didn’t just campaign against Nixon; they took on the
Democratic establishment, too. Newly elected Representative George
Miller of California, then just 29 years old, announced, “We came here
to take the Bastille.”
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So that accursed war helped destroy the Democrats as well. My grandfather always used to say he's a Democrat, though he usually voted Republican.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans, he'd say, are the party of big business.
They are both worthless for the most part, sad to say.
Delete'Left'wing, 'Right' wing, same vulture.
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