[lbo-talk] Moving to the Right (Ike the liberal)

[Michael Dawson]

And isn't the lesson here all about the New Deal/Full Employment era that
lasted from 1935 to 1945?  That ripped the RP way to the left, so that it
had to front a guy like Ike to stick its foot back in the door.  And the DP,
too, was shifted way left by depression, FDR, and war.

I still see no reason why our rallying cry shouldn't be "New New Deal!"
That was the event that threatened to improve the system.  Why not revive
and modernize it, then either take over the DP or start the NNDP?


> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:05 AM
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> Cc: furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Moving to the Right (Ike the liberal)
> 
> Doug wrote:
> 
> >[People who talk about how the Dems have moved right and how little
> >difference between D&R remains should consider this excerpt from a
> >post-election piece by Blanche Wiesen Cook. The rightward move of
> >the Reps is the real shift in American politics.]
> 
> The real shift is that both the Republican and Democratic Parties
> have moved to the right on the class struggle front and that both
> have moved to the left on the social and cultural struggle front
> (concerning equality between genders, races, sexual orientations,
> etc.), in keeping with the economic shift (e.g., the end of the
> post-World War 2 boom, stagflation, intensification of international
> competition, etc.).
> 
> Yoshie
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