nerv14
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Kennedy was before LBJ and the Great Society decided to focus on subsidizing physical and moral lassitude. Since then, the focus of the Anti-Republicans has been to make virtue out of vice. The party of Kennedy would not be a bad governing party, but that party left Washington in 1964 and never came back.
The US should gut every entitlement program if that's what it takes to balance the budget, defend the nation, and send people out to explore and eventually colonize other planets.
I really liked the democrats before the Great Society. FDR, Truman, and especially Kennedy were all great. The welfare programs that they had were truely a safety net, and not FEDERAL wealth distrubtion for the sake of it.
They were aggressive in the Cold War like the Republicans, but not as much, they supported civil rights equality, didn't have religious politics, had ballanced budgets (except during Depression) and were just cooler, ballin people anyway.
Clinton's the only backlash to that, in sense, and I would be voting democrat if they stayed that way.