Promoting mass purchasing power

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 23 12:07:08 PDT 1998


Brad De Long wrote:


>You can say that the one-step-to-the-left-of-the-center party is making a
>*mistake* when it shifts right, smelling that that's the way the votes have
>moved. But if you want to guarantee that it the shift right will
>*accelerate*, just let the one-step-to-the-left-of-the-center party be
>defeated--then all of its office-holders and potential office-holders will
>say: "Gee. There are even more voters to our right than we believed..."

Well, since it seems likely the Dems will take a drubbing in the November election, and since Clinton's future is less than bright, should we start ordering the brown shirts now, before prices skyrocket?

Doug



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