Impeachment: Clinton's Service to the Democrats

[Carrol Cox]

This discussion suggests yet another fancy we might have re the
necessary destruction of the hold the Dem. Party has over those with
progressive tendencies. If the Dems keep pushing the republicans further
and further to the right by repeatedly usurping the nominal Republican
Platform, perhaps the Republicans will slip over the edge, leaving only
the Dem Party, which would then have no cover for its reactionary
positions.

Incidentally, someone referred to "real democrats," or something like
that, suggesting I believe that Clinton had betrayed the real democrats.
But it is the myth of "The Real Democrat" that we must destroy, for in
fact not more than a dozen or so politicians in this century have even
remotely represented that alleged species. Frank Murphy was (perhaps)
one such: he resolutely, despite great behind-the-scenes pressure from
Roosevelt, refused to call out the National Guard to suppress the
Sit-down strikes.

Too many people forget that it was WW2, not Roosevelt or the New Deal,
that ended the Depression. And I think that error lies behind the
eternal dream for a "real democrat" in the White House.

Carrol