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markus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 05:57 AM
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21. Good Book: "What's the Matter with Kansas"
discusses the idea of how this is happening, and offers some very good insights.

The most telling is, when the DLC-wing of the Democratic Party started moving away from a class-concious definition of the working, middle class, they left a huge opening.

People who were on the down side of the middle class suddenly had no other way to identifiy themselves politically except by their Church, their stand on abortion, etc.

It created a huge opening which the militant anti-abortion movement rolled through like a swollen river through a broken dike. And the elite right wing has been riding that wave for the last 10 years.

It will continue to get worse until we dump the DLC and repay in kind the class war which the GOP has been waging on us for a generation.
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