Reply #56: You seem bent on personalizing this

[kenny blankenship]

But I'll try to keep discussion centered on the record.
The DLC has sold out southern whites who used to vote for them by backing every anti-Labor measure and trade treaty it could find. Of course it's not fair to view that one betrayal in isolation: they have also sold out the interests of southern blacks by the same anti-labor "bidness friendly" attitude, by hypeing the war on drugs and cheering the destruction of social programs.

The Democratic Party which used to be a party of segregationists to its credit expanded its defense of the average white man to a defense of average PEOPLE. You find principle objectionable it seems and want to return to those earlier days. Well, can't fault the DLC for not trying it your way! There's a problem though: you're running out of hated "interest groups" to burn on the altar of uppermiddle class and corporate power. One by one--labor, blacks, women, Hispanics, gays, "peaceniks", environmentalists--those interest groups you resent so much have been traded away and turned off from the Party, and the net effect is that the New Democrats are still rapidly fading away. It hasn't done the larger Democratic Party a damn bit of good to turn their backs on their base and their principles. Whodda thunkit?

It's hilarious that you think you know what I'd be saying in 1948--I speak of what has been DONE, you want to attack me personally on stuff it's impossible for me to have done.
In view of your rapid escalation to personal invective and plain absurdity, and your distaste for the current Democratic Underground, I'm going to have to bid you have a nice Republican day.