[lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day

[R]

At 04:16 PM 9/6/2004, you wrote:
>Two different things have happened.  Both parties have
>turned to the right on labor issues, particularly
>since the end of the postwar boom.  On the other hand,
>and not just on labor issues, the Dems have become
>more homogeneously left, and the Repugs ditto right.
>So the Dems are the best of a worsening lot.

regarding the dems, one must ask "homogeneously left" of what?

when i think of dems as the best of a worsening lot, i'm reminded of a 
carton of milk that is turning.  do i dare drink it, or throw it out?

R


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>
>you're making an
> > unsustainable assumption that the
> > democratic party has become more "liberal" and "pro
> > Union" since most of
> > its dixiecrats defected to the republicans.
>
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