You are right, they are all condescending liberals, both Reps and Dems. I'm more conservative leaning, but as I look back at the JFK and LBJ eras, both were more conservative than any of the Reps or Dems of today. The only thing truely different between a Rep and a Dem in congress today is that the Reps "act" like they feel bad about large government.
They are all a stinking steaming pile of excrement. I'd like to see what changes would take place if candidates from the middle class took control of congress instead of all the elitist (Reps and Dems) that are controlling our country today.
There's a lot of Republican revisionism around JFK, but I rarely see LBJ included as 'more conservative than Republicans today'
The times were different enough that it's partly an apples and oranges comparison. A tax CUT meant to 70% top rate, where a tax INCREASE today is to 39%. JFK campaigned to expand Medicare - his enemy was Ronald Reagan who campaigned nationally against JFK for his 'socialized medicine' position. Today, no official in the two main parties is taking Reagan's position then.
LBJ, under Republican pressure, took the nation to war he didn't think we could win - in Vietnam. Was that 'conservative'? Is that something our Republicans today should emulate?
JFK and LBJ were liberals in another time. JFK was a 'radical' for peace - and a cold warrior leading the US in its most dangerous time of the cold war.
One thing that was different - they were big spending liberals' who had far more 'fiscal responsibility' than Republicans since Reagan, and really but to a lesser degree Nixon.
You appear confused by thie 'elitist' propaganda. That word is nothing but a word to try to get you to not pay attention to the REAL elitists, the rich who corrupt our political system.
JFK was a rich man - who was willing to attack is own class for the public interest. 'Middle class' politicians are often very willing to serve rich masters and attack their own class for their donors' interests.
The deficit today is a travesty. Behind it are a lot of bad policies - failing to protect workers, wall street deregulation, and much more. In JFK and LBJ's presidencies, manufacturing was 40-50% of the economy, union membership was high, while Wall Street was 10-15% of the economy. Today the reverse of all those things is the case.
Underlying why THAT'S the case is understanding that the rich have gotten control of our system - not directly, their numbers are few, but by propagandizing most of the public.
Even many who think they OPPOSE that agenda have really adopted it, by making 'the new left', ''centrist Democrats'. adopt a lot of its positions as the new 'middle' in politics.
Gone are the days when Eisenhower said those who opposed the public-assisting programs were a few radicals. The new 'left' is Clinton deregulating Wall Street saying 'the era of big government is over'.
The rich have a simple strategy for dominating politics: ensure that what only they can give is needed to win.
And they've just been given a gift by the radical right on the Supreme Court to let the rich really dominate from now on.
The people are losing a class war they don't know they're in and are trained to think they should not fight.
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