On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:34 -0400, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
>> Don't we think this reverses the cause-effect relationship? Dems have
>> to move into old R territory in order to appear (or, heaven* forfend,
>> be) something like moderate.
>
> I don't think the causal arrow runs just one way. They're
> like a pair of ballroom dancers, twirling and pirouetting
> toward a precipice. (Not that most ballrooms incorporate
> a precipice, but hey, if you want unmixed metaphors, you
> gotta pay for 'em.)
The ruling class moved right, esp in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the working class collapsed. That might have something to do with it.
Doug