Posted on 01/27/2005 12:07:15 PM PST by brothersjudddotcom
The Strange Death That No One Cares About (Orrin C. Judd, 1/27/05, Tech Central Station)
There was a death in Washington recently that received far less attention than it deserved: the New Democrat philosophy of Bill Clinton is dead. This is a truly extraordinary development; one that should not be allowed to pass so quietly.
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My thought is that the Iraq War has given the hard left to reawaken the demons that had been thought to be put to rest with the fall of communism, i.e., the flagrant anti-business, anti-religion, anti-American foreign policy, pro-state socialist strand of the Democratic party.
"New Democrats" were a figment of the Media's imagination. In truth, they hardly existed at all even at the height of Bill Clinton's career. It was another of the convenient lies that Democrats told themselves as they papered-over the contradictions in their governing coalition.
My guess is that we are witnessing proof that political evolution is a theory and not a fact. For years dems. survived in the merky depths, feeding and fighting largely unseen. Then clinton came along and manipulated them into following him to new waters. He and a few others adapted easily into their new environment but by and large the others were left to evolve and could not. Yet here they are, confused in the clear waters and unable to find their way back to their former enviroment. They can't grow legs and walk out of the water, evolving into a new creature who would at least stand a chance for survival. Their last option; beach themselves and hope someone will come along who can help.
posted earlier
I thought I was in trouble! damn, ya' scared me StS!
This article comes from a libertarian site so naturally it gets it totally wrong. Liberatians flatly reject the importance of cultural issues.
During the go-go 90s it was easy to sell the New Democrat line on NAFTA, outsoursing, free trade, winking at illegal immigration but cultural left positions on gay marriage and abortion. It was the tech boom. Couldn't all those displaced blue collar workers learn Perl and Visual Basic and HTML ? The New Democrat philosophy was to totally disdain the interests and values of blue collar Democrats and only care about Starbucks upscale liberals.
The New Democrat era ended in March 2001 when Y2K passed without incident and the dot com tech stock boom crashed. White collar professionals who had made a lot of money in the 90's saw that they could be replaced just the same way auto workers were 20 years ago. Between outsourcing, illegal immigration, the misery of the rust belt, H1B's the public was now concluding that free trade at all costs, cost more than it was worth
New Democrat=Old Socialist.
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