That 60's Show - now in its 40th year of re-runs

This excellent, though almost Bill Whttle length, essay by Jay Tea at WizBang pretty much says everything that needs to be said about the severe idea drought of today's political left.

Long post short: The American political left scored a triple play in the decade that lasted roughly from 1965 to 1975.  They won, hands down, every political battle that they waged -- they created a massive welfare state, they castrated the U. S. military, and they destroyed a Republican presidency.

But they never learned how to do anything else, really.  So forty years later, their solutions to problems are still: 1) spend more money, 2) Republicans are the spawn of Satan, and 3) the U. S. military is the single greatest source of evil in human civilization.

But to convince others of the merits of those solutions, they have to first convince us that it is 1970 all over again.  And again.  And again.  And again.  The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.  Republicans lied about the Iraqis so Halliburton could steal their oil.  Iraq is just another Viet Nam.

Maybe the reason why these guys can't win elections is because that the rest of us live in 2005, not 1965.  I don't want to be stuck in the 1970's forever.  I hate feathered-back hair.