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In reply to the discussion: This is what happens when progressives stay home on election day and claim both parties are the same [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)faction--why have they been blaming the left for everything from the Lebanon War to stubbed toes since 1988: they've basically become the MPAA of the Democratic party: they can put out pre-movie bumpers about how people recording movies are gonna make their hard-working daddy die--they're well-funded and strictly in charge, but still an open punchline that drags the whole party down, torpedoing every primary they can get their hands on
what's the genealogy of this countermovement? are they Dixiecrats? Reagan Dems? Birchers? Scoop Jackson neocons?
but they'd rather have either nonvotes or votes where the people just silently line up behind the appointed candidate and then go home afterwards: if it's worked for Latin America 1830-1990, why not the US? at least with machine poltiics you GET something out of it