[lbo-talk] Dems: Let the purge begin!

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>On Aug 12, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Leaders of the Netroots, as the Internet activists have been named,  will 
>>tell you that big ideas are way overrated in American politics  - that you 
>>first have to master the business of getting elected  before you can worry 
>>about how to govern.
>
>If this is true, they're dreaming. The right-wing of the early 1970s  was 
>all about big ideas, like repealing the New Deal, bringing back  19th 
>century capitalism, bringing down the USSR, and undermining the  appeal of 
>socialist and social democratic politics. It was extremely  odd and 
>marginal to believe these things 35 years ago, but it was a  coherent and 
>radical package. I don't see anything comparable on the  "left" today.

Yes, it's time for the "left" to become a left.  If ever there was a 
historical window of opportunity for Something Completely Different, this is 
it.  Like the man said, "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken 
at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is 
bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And 
we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."  Time to get 
a movement on.

Carl