Re: Kerry

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
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> The only question seems to be whether punishing the Democrats to keep them from
> moving further to the right outweighs the risk of 4 more Bush years.

I oppose the DP, & quite frankly don't care whether it moves left or
right. (In the presence of a large mass movement _both_ parties will
move to the left.)

Non DP supporters probably are a various bunch, but some of us at least
see the DP as the _Party of Capitalism_, existing to absorb or deflect
popular movements that might get out of hand. The Republican Party, by
contrast, is a parochial party, which flourishes when there is no
particular threat to capitalism and different sectors of capitalists can
afford to fight each other.

I certainly have never since 1965 had any illusions as to the DP moving
to the left in any significant way, and such a hope has been no part of
my politics.

Carrol