Re: The Tax Bill & the D's

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max wrote:
> Given the Dems enthrallment to Wall Street, the difference
> in regimes will be in the spheres of judicial appointments
> and regulation (which doesn't show up as a budget cost).
> Important areas, but ones fundamentally incapable of
> moving the U.S. towards social-democracy.  For that you
> need big bucks.

it's not big bucks that buys social democracy, since big bucks won't buy it
(they want something else) and any kind of social democracy that's bought
with cash is crappy. It's popular mobilization of workers and other
dominated groups that leads to social democracy, something that the Big
Wigs see as a compromise relative to what the popular mobilization threatens.
Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine