“Hodge skillfully draws the veil from Obama’s allegedly ‘reformist agenda’ to expose the reality of the programs ‘to ensure that no major stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will suffer significant losses,’ and will even enjoy spectacular gains - the ‘perfection of the long right turn’ of the Democratic Party since the 1970s, as financialization of the economy led to shedding New Deal commitments so as ‘to compete with the Republicans for corporate patronage.’ He calls for a revitalization of the founding tradition of civil virtue and republican values of liberty, a message that should be taken to heart if we are to reverse the drift toward an ugly future.” [Noam Chomsky]
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>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:58:29 -0500
>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] has the TP peaked
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
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>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...