I like some of stuff that you post, but this kind of discourse really rubs me the wrong way. It sounds like a fit thrown by a brat cursing his mother that she did not buy him a toy that he wanted. The Dems are your mamma and your papa - far from perfect but the only ones that you've got. There is no alternative, so you will be better off working to improve your parents' attitudes instead of running away from home. :)
Wojtek
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I was born in 1930 -- i.e. I grew up in a household that worshipped
> Roosevelt. I didn't break with the DP until 1965, after getting a reply
> from Senator Paul Douglas (also semi-worshipped up to that point) in
> response to a letter saying that the invasion of the Dominican Republic and
> his support of it had robbed me of "My" Party. I stll have not trouble
> breaking the link to fDR, but I have not a drop of remaining attachment to
> the DP. Were voting maddatory in the U.S., I would vote for Palin before I
> would vote for ANY DP candidate.
>
> The tie can be broken -- not just the rational but the emotional tie.
>
> Carrol
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Gar Lipow
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3:29 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] "Still a Democrat" (was protest Obama)
>
> Rationally I'm on the side of seeing the DP as the problem not
> solution. But at the same time I have a huge emotional attachment to
> the Democratic Party that is hard to get over. Terry Bisson, I think,
> expressed it well in an interview:
>
> The facts of Bisson's life and mine or very different, but emotionally
> the following quote from him speaks for me too:
>
> >"Once in my twenties I tried (probably foolishly) to explain to a favorite
> aunt why I was a radical, a Marxist, an all-around anti-war hippie radical.
> She nodded and said, "you are still a Democrat though?"
>
> >I said sure.
>
> Later in the same interview with Bisson:
>
> >Q) How do you feel about anarchism?
>
> >A) "As an idea, I like it. But I'm a big government guy. I'm a TVA baby.
> Still a Democrat".
>
> Again, these are not to be taken as intellectual analysis. But they
> represent real emotional truths for some leftists of all political
> stripes, and probably do influence our analysis.
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