On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
> On a related point , I just realized yesterday that the line of
> some of the left that "the Democratic Party is the place where social
> movements go to die" is completely wrong, completely contradicted by
> the
> facts.
No, it's where they go to accommodate to the existing order.
Not so minor point: the Christian right is a social movement. Not all social movements are "progressive."
Doug