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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4795101" data-attributes="member: 56035">bernie sanders is comparable to ike who supported the new deal.&quot;We have this phenomenon where someone is taking positions that would have been considered pretty mainstream during the Eisenhower years, that are supported by a large part, often a considerable majority, of the population, but he’s dismissed as radical and extremist,&quot; he said. &quot;That’s an indication of how the spectrum has shifted to the right during the neoliberal period, so far to the right that the contemporary Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans, and the Republicans are just off the spectrum.&quot;His positions would not have surprised President Eisenhower, who said, in fact, that anyone who does not accept New Deal programs doesn’t belong in the American political system. That’s now considered very radical.&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-isnt-a-radical-hes-basically-eisenhower/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4795101, member: 56035"] bernie sanders is comparable to ike who supported the new deal. "We have this phenomenon where someone is taking positions that would have been considered pretty mainstream during the Eisenhower years, that are supported by a large part, often a considerable majority, of the population, but he’s dismissed as radical and extremist," he said. "That’s an indication of how the spectrum has shifted to the right during the neoliberal period, so far to the right that the contemporary Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans, and the Republicans are just off the spectrum. "His positions would not have surprised President Eisenhower, who said, in fact, that anyone who does not accept New Deal programs doesn’t belong in the American political system. That’s now considered very radical." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-isnt-a-radical-hes-basically-eisenhower/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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