Nearly every conversation on this list does this. People think it's urgent to point out that the Republicans nominated a right-winger for VP. People think it's relevant to point out that pro-capitalist intellectuals think the commons was a tragedy. People think it's useful to point out that CEOs live in their own reality. All of these are evident, how-about-them-Mets points. Why have you chosen now to pschaw the rest of us mountain-builders?
^^^^ CB: Ok here's something never said on this list, a newsflash, man bites dog:
The US Democratic Party has _not_ been the place where social movement "go to die". Contrary to the dogma on this section of the left, the DP , for example, was the main instrument of fulfilling the agenda of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's, and the Urban agenda movement of the 1970's. In fact , the DP substantially sacrificed its dominance on behalf of the this central US social movement in that the Nixon/Reaganite Southern Strategy succeeded largely by pandering to racist backlash against this movement and the DP service of it.
Similarly, the DP gave itself up to the anti-war against Vietnam movement in the Presidential nomination of McGovern in 1972, who ran practically as a single issue candidate against the war. That peace movement hardly "died" in the DP, as the Congress voted to stop the war in 1973.
The normal knock on the DP on this list is contradicted by the facts of history.
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