Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Here's what DLC poobah Will Marshall said a couple of years ago
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> Elements of the "Grand Bargain"
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> Despite his impeachment ordeal, President Clinton still can make a
> vital contribution to breaking the impasse on Social Security. As the
> centerpiece of his 1999 State of the Union Address, he could offer a
> "grand bargain" that addresses the traditionalists' legitimate qualms
> about market risk and ov/erhead costs and the modernizers' equally
> valid desire to empower workers.
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The "modernizers' equally valid desire to empower workers."
Does not that lie condense every thing the Democratic Party has ever stood for, from its support of slavery and the suppression of the Pullman strike through the slaughter of 1917-18 and the defense of lynching to the launching of the Cold War and its extension in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (including along the way FDR's secret attempts to crush the Sitdown strikes)? In power and out, when throwing scraps to the workers or destroying past scraps (welfare 'reform') the Party has been central during its entire history to the maintenance of oppression and exploitation at home and abroad.
The core principles of the left in the U.S. have to be the destruction of the Democratic Party and opposition to all U.S. activities abroad. All other sqabbles within the left are subordinate.
Carrol