Dems

[Michael Perelman]

An alternative interpretation of Brad's would be that the Dems, by siphoning
off potentially radical energies and by muddling policy by apeing the Repugs
are the greatest threat to progress.  At best, we might work to see the New
Dems get trashed so that progressives can build a real oppositional party.
Unfortunatively, the McGovernites tried this strategy and ultimately failed.

Brad De Long wrote:


> Well, the actually existing Democratic Party is the only thing that *might*
> inch America slightly toward social democracy over the next generation. And
> as America goes, so goes the world...

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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