Thomas Frank book excert, still incredibly, and sadly, relevant........

[marmar]

[font size="4"]“The Democratic Leadership Council, the organization that produced such figures as Bill Clinton…has long been pushing the party to forget blue-collar voters and concentrate instead on recruiting affluent, white-collar professionals who are liberal on social issues. The larger interests that the DLC wants desperately to court are corporations, capable of generating campaign contributions far out-weighing anything raised by organized labor. The way to collect the votes and—more important—the money of these coveted constituencies, “New Democrats” think, is to stand rock-sold on, say, the pro-choice position while making endless concessions on economic issues, on welfare, NAFTA, Social Security, labor law, privatization, deregulation, and the rest of it…. Democrats no longer speak to the people on the losing end of a free-market system that is becoming more brutal and more arrogant by the day.”[/font]

- from, What's the Matter With Kansas, 2004

[floriduck]

1. Precisely on the money.

Too bad union leaders haven't figured out they are being played by Third Wayers.

[antigop]

2. yep. nt