Bob Barr is a closet negro!

ptah13 wrote:

headkicker_girl wrote:

ptah13 wrote:

So, last time there was all-out liberal control was 1965? So the 70's were the product of that era's genius?

lulz...

You really are a fucking moron. 

The Democratic party didn't become the party of liberals until the 70s.  Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until 1964, and Jesse Helms was a Democrat until 1970.  Southern Democrats in 1965 were the same as today's Republicans.  In 1965, the Democrats were still the party of southern racists.  The big switch didn't occur until 1972 when many jumped ship to vote for Nixon.  That was part of the "southern strategy."

So the problems of the 70s were purely a vestige of the (Southern) Democrat controlled congress, who were all (future) Republicans.

So Carter wasn't a liberal? You're saying that Nixon, who ran throughout the 60's WAS a liberal?

Bobby and Robert Kennedy were conservative, and so was Johnson, then? So the conservatives were responsible for civil rights? Ok...

Gotcha... thanks for the edumacation there, HKG.

1.  Carter got elected in 1976, NOT 1965.

2.  Try to keep up...the liberals did not have a party in the 60s.  They didn't gain any political power until Carter was elected.  McGovern was probably the first truly "liberal" candidate, and he didn't get elected.

3.  Bobby, Robert and Johnson were social conservatives, except for civil rights.  That was the only "liberal" issue on the table in the 60s.  Neither party did anything to end the Vietnam War, really.  The Kennedy Brothers weren't even very pro-civil rights.  They were all talk and no action.   Johnson did all the dirty work in that area, and it was only because he wanted to be remembered for something other than Kennedy's assasination and the vietnam war.

4. So, back to your original post, there were no liberals, as we know them today, in the Democratically controlled Congress of 1965.