<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>from:  Voice4Change <BR>Changing Hearts and Minds<BR><A href="http://www.voice4change.org">http://www.voice4change.org</A><BR><BR><BR>May 23, 2003<BR><BR>Behind the DLC Takeover <BR>By John Nichols<BR>The Progressive<BR><BR>Note this a story from the year 2000. Many readers want to know more about<BR>the DLC so I thought I'd pass the story on.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>At the national convention of a major political party, an ideologically<BR>rigid sectarian clique secures the ultimate triumph. It inserts two of its<BR>own as nominees for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Heavily<BR>financed by the most powerful corporations in the world, the group's<BR>leaders gather in a private club fifty-four floors above the convention<BR>hall, apart from the delegates of the party they had infiltrated. There,<BR>they carefully monitor the convention's acceptance of a platform the<BR>organization had drafted almost in its entirety. Then, with the ticket<BR>secured and with the policy course of the party set, they introduce a team<BR>of 100 shock troops to deploy across the country to lock up the party's<BR>grassroots.<BR><BR>This is not some fantastic political thriller starring Harrison Ford or<BR>Sharon Stone. This is the real-life version of Invasion of the Party<BR>Snatchers--with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) burrowing into the<BR>pod that is the Democratic Party. <BR><BR>For the rest of the story:</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.progressive.org/nich1000.htm">http://www.progressive.org/nich1000.htm</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>and</FONT><BR><A href="http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030523~v4c.asp">http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030523~v4c.asp</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>