[lbo-talk] Dean: transformative?

[Shane Taylor]

Doug Henwood wrote: 
> I keep hearing this, but how's Dean a transformative
> vehicle. Barry Goldwater was a serious - wacko, if you
> prefer - movement conservative in 1964. He stood for
> stuff that was deeply out of fashion.

Touché.


> Dean stands for... what exactly? How can you
> transform a party without an agenda?

Most likely, you don't.

One of the main local organizers was a McCain man in 2000, and there's a
vocal animus toward "Washington insiders".  It's like the free-floating
discontent that I found with Perot Reformers, but more liberal.  So, yes,
it is too inchoate to compare to Goldwater in '64.

But I'm curious, so I'll stick around.  There's not much else of interest
(politically) to do around here.

-- Shane

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