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Originally Posted by dc_dux
La Follette was a great Senator, but he was a failed presidential candidate.
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La Follette made his reputation as governor of Wisconsin where he was effective. What's is "failure" anyway?
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I prefer to focus on what we can do, giving the political climate of 2008.
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That's not really true. You're telling me and host what can't be done. By your calculations, the progressive movement of the '20s or the New Deal would never have occurred because thinking outside the dominant political ideology leads to defeat. So what happened to FDR in '36?
The New Deal and FDR are interesting in that FDR was more or less like Obama ideologically, at least during the '32 campaign. Quite mainstream.
I agree with rb that we are now in a crisis of neo-liberalism. I don't know how he and his neo-liberal advisers will react to deepening of the crisis. We shall see.