Reply #79: LOL- there wasn't a mass exodus from the Democratic party to Barry Commoner! [View All]

[depakid]

Democrats and especially the Clinton administration's repeated pandering to the right and backstabbing of everyone from labor to environmentalists to progressive interest groups opposed to the corporate right deregulatory agenda caused disillusionment and resentment.

People in these groups not only didn't volunteer and turn out in 1994- they looked for somewhere else and someone else that represented and advocated their interests.

Remember the Battle of Seattle? No? Remember 2000, where the Dems center right agenda blurred the differences between the parties turned Oregon (of all places) into a battleground state where the Greens took almost 6% of the vote?

Same dynamic then as now.

Unfortunately, the same sort of people not only failed to learn the lesson (poly sci 101 really) -but were bound and determined to repeat the same political and public policy mistakes and though their arrogance make the situation magnitudes worse.