Reply #184: The DLC is a defacto propaganda arm of Nixonian Republicanism --

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-- the same Republican new-South strategy Nixon et al employed against Democrats. Vote Republican, they said to Southern Democratic voters -- because "we understand each other" in the same insidious way Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond "understood" each other. A racist river flows beneath the golf course on which New South Republicans spend their leisurely Sunday afternoons.

Thus "liberals up north" are bad. Michael Dukakis is bad. John Kerry is bad. And, hero or not, John Kennedy was bad, too. Them East Coast libruls is the worst of the bunch.

To the extent that Nixon's strategy was successful (and it was very successful), the DLC further enables any voter in any state of the union to reinforce the limitations New South Racist Republicanism engenders and represents, by virtue of numbers: Nixon proved a "silent majority" will vote for whatever you tell them to vote for -- anti-1st amendment initiatives, corporate-managed health care, unprovoked wars against sovereign nations, etc. Trent Lott is in the U.S. Congress now because of this demographic shift. Joe Lieberman shoots his mouth off for Bush because of the shift. The DLC is there most of the time to loosen the bolts on the ferris wheel.

Not ALL DLC members, but many. Too many.

I won't slam the door on a given, individual DLCer, but I'm not hogwild about the tone and mission of that group of Democrats.