[lbo-talk] has the TP peaked

[Carrol Cox]

The  "shift right" within the DP occurred over 35 years ago. And it was not
just a shift in respect to the issues of the time: it defined the DP course
as a steady march "rightward." We are for all practical purposes still in
the "Carter Administration," and the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama
presidencies have been merely an unfolding of the Course established by
Carter in both domestic and foreign policies.

Mere description, even as powerful and as carefully reasoned a description
as that offered by Domhoff  -- whose work is (merely but still usefully)
empirical generalization rather that an attempt to grasp the forces involved
in the U.S. in the present period.

Carrol

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Yes, the bourgeoisie had a liberal faction, but a faction is not a class...

I kinda get where Hedges is coming from, but that essay is all bollocksed 
up.

Joanna

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I agree. But Hedges illustrated Chip Berlet's point about a shift right 
within the Democrats.

And apologies over the last paragraph or two of the second TP post. I am 
going nutz with economic anxiety... It's kind of typical that men react to 
fear with hostility.

CG