How does that work? There was no popular upsurge before Clinton that I can remember.
I am also dubious that the DP has any function at all. It's a product of people, not the nonexistent Wheel of History.
--- On Tue, 5/19/09, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> From: farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] why I love Workers Vanguard
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:28 PM
>
> Me thinks that Doug is confusing cause and
> effect cincerning the relationship between popular
> upsurges and the existence of Democratic
> administrations. The existence of a Democratic
> administration is a symptom of the existence of
> a popular upsurge. It's not its cause.
> Indeed, the function of the Democratic Party within the
> US political system is to channel popular discontent
> into paths where it cannot cause serious damage to
> the status quo. Sometimes, when popular discontent
> is severe enough this may even lead to genuine
> reforms. Most of the time that doesn't happen,
> as was the case under CLinton, and apparently
> now also Obama.
>
> Jim Farmelant
>
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