Today's Republicans make Ike, Nixon and Reagan look like liberals

I think your perspective is entirely wrong. Todays Progressive/Liberal Democrat makes John F. Kennedy look like an ultra-Conservative.

I can prove my point by pasting the "About Us" from the article you are quoting:

About the People's World

The People's World / Mundo Popular is a national, grassroots newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., the PW reports on and analyzes the pressing issues and struggles of the day: for workers' rights, peace, equality, social and economic justice, democracy, civil liberties, women's rights, protection of the environment, and more.

The PW is known for its partisan coverage. We take sides - for truth and justice. We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views.

Since the first issue of the Daily Worker came off the press in 1924, our press has been in the battles of the U.S. working class and people's movements. From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and '70s to the struggles that have given us the "new" labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movement for a progressive, people's agenda - we've been there.

The PW is part of the independent and free press tradition, and now the growing netroots movement, in the U.S. We are funded exclusively by our readers - no corporate money. With a small staff and a network of volunteers, we are proud to put out what many call "the best labor newspaper in the country."

This should pretty much end this discussion...lol.

Dennis-

So first you say this:

Todays Progressive/Liberal Democrat makes John F. Kennedy look like an ultra-Conservative.

1. Yesterday's (1960s) progressive/liberal Democrat made Kennedy look like an ultra conservative too. So there's been no shift towards the left.
2. The American Communist Party has nothing to do with Democrats; liberal, progressive, or otherwise.
3. We're talking politicians, not magazines. See the difference?

Then to backup your statement up you provide the "evidence" of the seeded website's "About" page.

What seems to have eluded you is that one has nothing to do with the other.

First, Kennedy was never a progressive/liberal Democrat, so the existence of the Communist Party of America's publication, which was formed in 1919, is meaningless. The existence of the Communist Party of America today is not news or evidence of a radical shift to the left. It's been here for 92 years.

By today's standards Nixon was quite progressive in some of his initiatives.

Can you imagine a Republican today proposing and enacting the EPA, The Clear Air Act, and the Clean Water Act? Not to mention Title X reproductive rights guarantees for women. All started under the Nixon administration. He's the father of those programs.

...to wit:

On July 18, 1969 President Nixon pledged his commitment in a message to Congress, stating:

"It is my view that no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition. I believe, therefore that we should establish as a national goal the provision of adequate family planning services within the next five years to all those who want them but cannot afford them. This we have the capacity to do."²

His next step was to create a commission in 1970, chaired by John D. Rockefeller, III. This commission concluded that:

"All Americans, regardless of age, marital status, or income, should be enabled to avoid unwanted births. Major efforts should be made to enlarge and improve the opportunity for individuals to control their own fertility, aiming toward the development of a basic ethical principle that only wanted children are brought into the world."³

Soon Congress responded, enacting Title X (ten) of the Public Health Service Act, the first - and to this day, only - federal program dedicated to providing family planning services nationwide. Signed into law by President Nixon on December 26, 1970, champions of the program during its enactment included then-Congressman George H.W. Bush, who said in 1969:

"We need to make population and family planning household words. We need to take sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be used by militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather are using it as a political steppingstone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter."⁴

The assertions of this article are correct in terms of the overall shift to the right of today's Republican, but it's also worth noting the down right progressiveness of 60s- 70s Republican as starting point for the shift to the right.

As a life long Democrat I would welcome this kind of Republican back into the political mainstream.

What we have now is truly a destructive force aimed at erasing programs and gains put in place by former Republicans.

Most of today's conservatives don't even realize that.