Why is JFK still so beloved by the Left?

[DevotedDemocrat]

The guy is still hailed to this day as an amazing President, a boy King, a great leader, a champion of Liberal virtues and ideals. Yes, he was killed horribly and tragically. But let's ignore that for a minute.

The guy was an incredibly corrupt guy in his own right. Had no real passion or compassion for civil rights until it became politically necessary. He's the only President who who brought us to the very brink of nuclear war. He was the only Democratic Senator to not vote for censuring Joe McCarthy. He cut off all relations with Cuba, which exists to this day. He was a hawk and a rabid anti-Communist under whose leadership we upped our involvement in Vietnam and did coups in Vietnam, the Congo and the Dominican Republican and installed bloody dictators. He wasn't able to pass any major piece of legislation; his main lasting legacy is the Peace Corps. He fought to pass a tax cut using the same logic that Reagan and Republicans would later use when pushing supply side economics. He was to the right of even Eisenhower.

He doesn't sound very Liberal to me. So, outside of his charm and good PR and death, why is he treated as a God and beloved by the Left?

[DevotedDemocrat]

Some days I like to stop and think how much better the world would have been if RFK had become President.  Sigh.  He was everything his brother was, but better in every way.

You mean a ruthless little b*stard who very nearly became Joe McCarthy's assistant, was thought of as ruthless in his time, and ordered wiretapping of Martin Luther King?