Re: Dems: Let the purge begin!
On Aug 12, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
Leaders of the Netroots, as the Internet activists have been named,
will tell you that big ideas are way overrated in American politics
- that you first have to master the business of getting elected
before you can worry about how to govern.
If this is true, they’re dreaming. The right-wing of the early 1970s
was all about big ideas, like repealing the New Deal, bringing back
19th century capitalism, bringing down the USSR, and undermining the
appeal of socialist and social democratic politics. It was extremely
odd and marginal to believe these things 35 years ago, but it was a
coherent and radical package. I don’t see anything comparable on the
“left” today.
Doug