Doug
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I don't even know what it means to say that someone is fundamentally
conservative. People are conservative because a) their social
location and background socialize them to be or b) because materially
it suits their interests. It is the office of the President in the
current economic and political situation that is fundamentally
conservative. As we can see from Europe, even if Obama was a die hard
socialist he wouldn't be doing things much different. This goes to
the Tiabbi article too. It isn't Obama or the bankers that are
criminals or conservatives. It is the structural location of those
positions in the current political and economic reality. [this
shouldn't be confused with me saying that the DP could not due
anything different today. Given Senate and House dems and activists
committed to something to the left, we would have different structural
constraints on the parameter of options on Obama's horizon.]
Brad