Reply #26: The Dems Have Been In Bed With Big Business Way Before [View All]

[DemocratSinceBirth]

the advent of the DLC.....


I remember reading Towards A Democratic Left by Michael Harrington where he describes how wedded the Great Society was to big business....

Also, Arthur Schlessinger in his seminal work on the New Deal persuasively argues that the New Deal was a conservative program in that it conserved capitalism by ridding it of it's excesses..

Once again, I don't have a dog in the DLC fight.... I just want to elect Dems.....

It reminds me of when they asked the current Chinese president if he thought China's economic reforms were a departure from communism... He said I don't care what you call the cat as long as it catchs the mouse....

I am a liberal, a pragmatist, and a realist....