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In reply to the discussion: We Need A Class Consciousness Revival [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)The 1971 Powell Memo set in motion a long term, multi-front, coordinated strategy to turn America into Amerika. We see that infrastructure being built then... Heritage and Cato, ALEC, the Federalist Society... long term strategies such as Starve The Beast, a No New Tax Pledge; defunding the Democratic Party by going after unions and trial lawyers. Did the Dems respond? Sure... but moving to the right.
Dems seem to have NO long term vision of where they want to take the US in 20-40-60 years... and without a vision, they're not going to create a similar strategy. Hell, Dems can't even wake up to the fact that our system's antidemocratic nature is doing them in. When I posed the simple question why Dems can't even support Civic Equality in the vote... even if that's WHY we got the Bush and Trump Juntas... the question fell on deaf ears. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028707874 And you can see the response here where so many are opposed to the Dems stressing an economic message instead of narrow identity politics. It's political equivalent of being penny wise, pound foolish.