On May 19, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Bill O'Connor wrote:
>
>> For all the evils of lesser evil-ism, the lesser evil is less evil.
>
> Not if it is the lesser evil that maintains the existence over time of
> both lesser and greater evils. And that is the case, as it happens, of
> the DP & the RP. Hence the _greatest_ evil is the left (or
> progressive)
> wing of the DP, which will _never_ have a significant impact on
> policy
> but will prrovide the cover for the evil the DP does. Without anti-war
> Democrats the Vietnam War might have ended much sooner.
You have any evidence for this proposition? The big radical upsurges of the last century in the U.S. - the 1930s and the 1960s, and even the mini-upsurge that culminated in Seattle in 1999 - all happened under Democratic administrations. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see something similar happen in the next year or three.
Doug