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Wow, I actually have some comments (even though most of them disagree with me). I never thought anyone would actually read this - at least not before I started telling family and friends about it. Whew, now I actually have to be interesting, so I'll try not to disappoint.
posted by The_Question @ 3:22 AM
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if i may make a friendly, blogger-to-blogger, suggestion - pop-up comments suit my taste much more than this new page action you got going on. to each his own - but non-blog-ophiles might get lost in the linkage.
Michael Lind, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, has an excellent column at http://www.tpmcafe.com/ which explains how to build a Democratic majority in America. Lind points out that America is predominately center right on social issues and center left on economic issues. While the Democratic Party has pursued upscale voters that are socially liberal and economically conservative, a large number of working and middle class populist voters have been lost to the Republican Party.Lind writes: "The United States has a right-of-center majority with respect to social issues and a a left-of-center majority with respect to economic issues. The stability of this popular consensus recently has been illustrated by the nearly simultaneous popular rejection of gay marriage and Social Security privatization. Social liberals are too far to the left of most Americans on social issues; economic conservatives are too far to the right of most Americans on economic issues."To paint a clear picture of the working and middle class voters that could be reclaimed by the Democratic Party, Lind goes on to define what he means by socially conservative and economic populists. "By liberal and conservative I mean center-left and center-right, not far-left and far-right. An economic liberal supports welfare-state capitalism, not far-left democratic socialism. A social conservative is a moderate traditionalist with qualms about abortion and gay marriage, not a far-right Christian fundamentalist who thinks that Satan controls the UN and that every unimplanted embryo is a child."The full article is available at http://tinyurl.com/cs4wm
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