[lbo-talk] Dean - biz as usual???????

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Wed Nov 12 12:08:12 PST 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Brian Siano wrote:
>
>> (I was talking to someone the other night about this, and they made a
>> really odd comment. "Suppose Dean gets the nomination," they said.
>> "Don't you think that's going to do more harm to the Democrats? Don't
>> you think it'll drive mainstream Democrats away?" Call me rude, but I
>> replied, that that was "utter and complete bullshit. First of all,
>> you're confusing mainstream Democrats with the DLC. Second,
>> mainstream Democrats don't bail on the party; they're the ones who
>> bitched about spoilers like Nader, remember? And if they _did_ ditch
>> the party because their candidate wasn't selected, especially when
>> the target is Bush Junior, well, what does that say about _them_? Why
>> try to appease such people?")
>
> Where'd the idea that Dean is so liberal come from? He's not. He's not
> quite DLC, but he's no raving leftie either.
> I'm thinking of starting a "Marxists for Dean" caucus, with the
> slogan, "It's conjunctural, man." Any volunteers to sign the initial
> manifesto?

I would, but je ne suis pas un Marxiste.



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