I'm not sure what Chuck is referring to, but in the audience there were quite a few very feisty Democrats who were thirsting for blood. They were not at all pleased with the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. There was a bit of the debate about whether we should give the finger to the fundamentalists or learn to talk to them -- can we do not have to rehash here.
If the Democratic Party ever stopped pandering to its funders and listen to the sort of people whom I met at the talk, I think they could win pretty easily. The problem is the people who run the party of their position to the funders rather than the people they're supposed to represent. That is the reason why they took down Howard Dean, who even though he was one of the more conservative Democrats, at least showed that he had a backbone and was willing to talk back to the bastards.
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:21:49PM -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > They won in 1992, 1996, and numerically in 2000. 2004 was pretty close,
> > and with a less awful candidate than JFK2, they could have won that one
> > too.
>
> Right, but those results came when the Democrats ran Republican
> candidates, especially a charismatic one named Clinton.
>
> Looking at the broader picture, the Democrats have done poorly on the
> congressional level too.
>
> > The Dems really suck, but you can't count them out.
>
> More and more people are counting them out. Perhaps Michael Perlman can
> share what he heard during his appearance here in Kansas City. The local
> Dems are roiling.
>
> Chuck
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu