It is obvious how RFK's death led directly to that disaster in Chicago. Daley promised to bring as many delegates to RFK between the time he won California and he was shot. The antiwar protests at the convention wouldn't have been as angry or disillusioned with RFK as the nominee. I watched tv coverage of the convention and there was Salinger and Sorenson speaking for the minority peace plank on Vietnam that later failed. I saw how the convention stopped and many people were crying then demonstrating after they showed a film of RFK's life in politics introduced by Ted Kennedy from Hyannisport and narrated by Richard Burton or some other British actor. It took them a long time to get the convention restarted. The party never recovered from the assassinations of the 1960s. trump seems to have shifted the democratic party too much in the direction of the national security state party, not that trump doesn't use the national security state to repress/punish his perceived enemies. Obama seems to have deliberately squandered that anti-war, anti-national security state, pro-civil liberties, anti-patriot act, and anti-guantanamo coalition that developed during bush's second term.
Forensic audits on all people in the top offices of the 3-branches would sort out much of the chicanery and two facedness we experience. One does not have to be in any political party to appreciate the ferreting out of back-room deals and closed door congressional meetings. "National Security" is the new "get out of jail free" card. JFK grossly undersestimated the brutality in the souls who hated him.
Excellent summary. Dems fell off a cliff when they jettisoned Bernie for Hillary in 2016, then did it again when they anointed Biden instead of the better candidate Bernie. Now they are lost. The hearings could have been an opportunity to turn the ship around.
I read a book years ago called the Panama papers that talked about the Delaware model that small countries around the world adopted to attract dirty money.
i total agree with this. dems are today to right of jfk and rfk despite some who claim they moved to far left of them.
Jimmy Carter despite what people think post white house actuly started dems towards neoliberals.he deregulted trucking industy for example.Michael Moore write in 2003 Nixon could be called on domestic issues more liberal than Clinton or carter.Biden and his failings including forcing harris on dems and making her defend his record gave us trump and nightmare we are in.
It is obvious how RFK's death led directly to that disaster in Chicago. Daley promised to bring as many delegates to RFK between the time he won California and he was shot. The antiwar protests at the convention wouldn't have been as angry or disillusioned with RFK as the nominee. I watched tv coverage of the convention and there was Salinger and Sorenson speaking for the minority peace plank on Vietnam that later failed. I saw how the convention stopped and many people were crying then demonstrating after they showed a film of RFK's life in politics introduced by Ted Kennedy from Hyannisport and narrated by Richard Burton or some other British actor. It took them a long time to get the convention restarted. The party never recovered from the assassinations of the 1960s. trump seems to have shifted the democratic party too much in the direction of the national security state party, not that trump doesn't use the national security state to repress/punish his perceived enemies. Obama seems to have deliberately squandered that anti-war, anti-national security state, pro-civil liberties, anti-patriot act, and anti-guantanamo coalition that developed during bush's second term.
Nice one. Like having readers like you.
Forensic audits on all people in the top offices of the 3-branches would sort out much of the chicanery and two facedness we experience. One does not have to be in any political party to appreciate the ferreting out of back-room deals and closed door congressional meetings. "National Security" is the new "get out of jail free" card. JFK grossly undersestimated the brutality in the souls who hated him.
Excellent summary. Dems fell off a cliff when they jettisoned Bernie for Hillary in 2016, then did it again when they anointed Biden instead of the better candidate Bernie. Now they are lost. The hearings could have been an opportunity to turn the ship around.
I read a book years ago called the Panama papers that talked about the Delaware model that small countries around the world adopted to attract dirty money.
That is true, the CIA used the Delaware locations because of their very lax incorporation laws. So yes I would not doubt that story.
i total agree with this. dems are today to right of jfk and rfk despite some who claim they moved to far left of them.
Jimmy Carter despite what people think post white house actuly started dems towards neoliberals.he deregulted trucking industy for example.Michael Moore write in 2003 Nixon could be called on domestic issues more liberal than Clinton or carter.Biden and his failings including forcing harris on dems and making her defend his record gave us trump and nightmare we are in.