Changing times: today's 'extreme' Democratic policies once mainstream

How times have changed! Current Democratic presidential candidates’ proposed policies labeled “extreme” by Republicans today were actively mainstream when I was young. Examples: 70 percent income tax on the highest bracket. It was over 90 percent throughout Republican President Eisenhower’s 1953-1961 term in office and at least 70 percent from 1936 through 1980.

Free college education: Close to reality at public institutions well before and after I went in 1954.

Medicare for All: Just a year after the U.S. passed Medicare for seniors in 1965, Canada passed Medicare for All and it became very p...