A Personal Note

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 01:22 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Doug wrote:
>Tom Lehman wrote:
>
>>"Another concern is that the Republicans will successfully elect a new
>>national team in this country next year, partly by playing off against
>>the
>>perceived failure of the Democratic administration's Kosovo policy.  In
>>this,
>>they will follow the lead of Eisenhower, who successfully argued in 1952
>>that
>>he would clean up the Democratic mess in Korea."
>>
>>>From a personal note I received this morning from a prominent
>>Philadelphia area Democrat.
>
>And remind me what would be so terrible about this? Might a Republican end
>welfare, double the jail population, launch hideous foreign wars, and tell
>lies from dawn until dusk?
>

Well, some of my female and gay friends are convinced that under a Repug
administration their civil rights would suffer a serious setback.  Another
issue to consider is working of gov't agencies, like EPA, FDA or HUD.
Clinton boosters claim that inner cities would be much worse off under a
Repugs  administration than under Clinton.  Ditto for the unions.  As to
judicial appointments, you have already mentioned that Clinton's are to the
right of those of Bush, but I remain somewhat skeptical.

But to be honest, I dunno, I'm only trying to play devil's advocate.
Methinks, however, that seeing Repugs controlling the White House, the
Congress and the Senate is unlikely.  The ruling classes would not allow
such a PR blunder.  It would seriously undermine the myth of American
"democracy."

Wojtek