That looks pretty much like what almost everyone expects to happen next year in the UK when they have to hold a general election. Hardly anyone expects Labour to be able to win again. The Tories will almost certainly be forming the next government there.
While Britain has long had a fairly active radical left, most of it is locked into the Labour Party, and not well positioned to form a viable alternative to the left of the Labour Party.
Jim F. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> To: LBO-Talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Americans say they're moving right Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:49:55 -0400
Doug writes:
>> These and other conflicting surveys are probably an indicator of how
>> uncertain, confused, and in flux American political attitudes are in
>> this
>> turbulent period of rapid change.
>
> Not sure it's flux - my sense is that Americans are really fucking
> confused, and always have been.
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Seems to me there is more disenchantment about the system, as you'd expect
in times like these - if not directed at capitalism as such, then at the
financiers who got them into this mess and increasingly at employers
presiding over layoffs and wage cuts and at Congress which is seen as
beholden to Wall Street and the "special interests".
But we know that increased anticapitalist sentiment doesn't necessarily result in political motion to the left, especially not when there is a political vacuum as exists today to the left of the Democratic party. If the crisis deepens, it wouldn't surprise me if the timid Obama administration doesn't survive past this term, and disillusioned American voters, especially younger ones hardest hit by unemployment, replace it with a Republican one decidedly to the right.
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