Reply #18: Found this quote from Marshall which indicates DLC mindset. [View All]

[madfloridian]

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.06.13/news11.html

I found this quote from Will Marshall from an article where Edwards criticizes the pharmaceutical companies. It is just so wrong to me.

SNIP..."It's a good time for such political populism, some Democratic strategists argue. Even Will Marshall, president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute — who criticized Vice President Al Gore's populist turn during the 2000 presidential campaign as "empty populism without any real analysis" — praised the approach. "There's a lot of well-founded anger and suspicion about corporate actors after Enron, other scandals and recent reports of top executives really looting companies," Marshall told the Forward, adding "it's more than fair game for Democrats." The trick, Marshall said, "is to force higher standards of accountability on the actors," but to do so "in a market-sensitive way" that doesn't "undercut the innovation that made the American pharmaceutical industry the world leader."

Don't undercut "innovation." That is how corporations got so much power here...no one confronts them.