[lbo-talk] Future of Demo Party?

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Sun Jul 25 13:20:47 PDT 2004


<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/magazine/25DEMOCRATS.html>

If you believe this, a group of proggish venture capitalists are cooking up a scheme to put tens of millions of $$ into starting a new movement, independently of the Dem establishment, to shake things up between 2004 and 2008.

"... the new political venture capitalists see themselves as true progressives, unbound by any arcane party structure. If their investment ends up revitalizing the Democratic Party, so be it. If they end up competing with the party to control its agenda, or even pushing the party toward obsolescence -- well, that's fine, too."

Then again, they may be just a few rich guys with stars in their eyes who will sink out of sight in the great Okeefenokee Swamp of American Politics.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)



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