Re: Snitches on the "Left"

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 9:39 AM 4/15/96, Rahul Mahajan wrote:

>Isn't this true though? Dole is certainly more strongly influenced by the
>Christian Coalition and possibly even by big business (note Clinton vetoed
>the Republican "tort reform" bill -- concern for the trial lawyers or the
>American consumer? and the "partial-birth abortion" ban). The CC and the
>totalitarian corporations are certainly the two biggest potential sources
>of modern-day "fascism" (friendly fascism? general bad authoritarian
>ultrarightness? you pick the term) in the country. I'd vote for Clinton
>myself if he wasn't lying murdering scum.

That's a big damn if, eh?

I don't know how true it really is. When I was doing my piece on Steve
Forbes for The Nation (which yielded me $250, Comrade Godena), I had a long
chat with R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell, editor of the right-wing magazine, The
American Spectator. "Bob" said that he thought the Republicans aren't
really serious about their social agenda. From tha I theorized that the
Christian right serves as the mass base for Republican candidates, rather
like labor, blacks, etc. do for Democrats. Once in office, though, both
parties can betray their electorates and run the country in the interests
of Wall Street and the Fortune 500.

Further, as any Trotskyist schoolkid knows, an essential prerequisite for
fascism is a failure and/or betrayal by a putatively left party. Clinton
fits that bill nicely. Would the Republicans have won Congress in 1994 if
it weren't for popular revulsion against Clinton?

Doug

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