Some insight on the DLC

[VenusRising]

I was doing some research on the DLC and came across this interesting read at The Black Commentator. I hope that others might get as much from reading it as I did.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html


The DLC's mission is to erase the last vestiges of social democracy from the Democratic Party, so that the corporate consensus will never again be challenged in the United States. Acting as a Republican Trojan Horse in the bowels of the Democratic machinery, the DLC claims the "real" party lives somewhere off to the right, where George Bush dwells, and that minorities, unionists, environmentalists, feminists, men and women of peace - virtually every branch of the party except corporatists - must be purged or muzzled.

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The DLC doesn't represent any Democratic Party voters. Its masters include American and United Airlines, Aetna and New York Life Insurance, Microsoft, DuPont, the agribusiness and pharmaceutical industries, Citigroup and, until recently, Enron, among many others. The DLC is an organization conceived in the boardroom and dedicated to the proposition that moneyed interests trump all others. About two hundred corporations comprise its Board of Advisors (fee: $5,000), and nearly 100 pay the cost to be the boss on the DLC's Policy Roundtable ($10,000 each). For $25,000, around 30 corporate executives pretend to be Democrats as members of the DLC Executive Council. Enron sat there, along with Philip Morris, Texaco, Chevron, and Dupont.

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The insurgent DLC tinkered with the delegate selection process at Democratic conventions to frustrate the participation of grassroots party activists. They developed their rightist corporate message and they stayed on it. They built an impressive machine to boost each other's careers and publicize the alleged "new ideas" and "innovative approaches" of their star politicians. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt and Bill Clinton all served as DLC chairs. Jimmy Carter was involved, as was every southern Democratic governor.

More at link above.


This seems like an old article, but I've never seen it before. I've also never really gotten a clear idea of what exactly the DLC did behind closed doors and this helped open my eyes a bit more with the history lesson. I think that anytime we can shine the light on those who are out against the people's interests, we must. It's our obligation as citizens, not just for the country, but for each other as well.

[Guava Jelly]

1. I will give it a read

thank you and :hi:

[VenusRising]

9. Take from it what you will.

It just scares the bajeebers out of me sometimes.

:hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Almost five years old.

Practically yesterday afternoon.

"Issue Number 46
June 12, 2003"

What was that Obama was preaching about people who are stuck in the past?

--p!

[VenusRising]

5. But it doesn't make it less valid if that is what the DLC does.

Time does not diminish the damages felt by people. Look at NOLA.

[redqueen]

3. So often when I read about this organization

I hear the O'Jays in my head.

[newmajority]

4. I believe I know that tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVC2j_Kdw8c

Or was it this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xKlbeHLf4

Either would fit.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Yeah, no shit.

"They smile in your face". Exactly. :puke:

[redqueen]

10. Second one.

Money money money money... MONEY!

[VenusRising]

8. I hear popping sounds in my head

like something is about to 'splode.

[TexasObserver]

7. DLC = job for Al From

He's literally a DINO.

[movonne]

12. I think I heard him say he is a repug...

[kestrel91316]

11. Thank you for posting this. I agree that DLC appears to be Republican

Infiltrators.

I was talking to a client of mine a few days ago - he's an ex-Brit and now a US citizen, and was puzzled by DiFi and her distinctly conservative leanings, until I explained about the DLC. Sort of a wake-up call for him.

I also tipped him off about the Dominionists.

I SOOOOO understand why they just take spies and moles out and shoot them. Or used to.

[VenusRising]

13. It all clicks when you look at the votes on major issues.

The DLC seems to always side with the Right. I just wish they would be honest about it and stop this cloak-and-dagger crap.

And the Dominionists are another barrel of monkeys to sort out.