At 12:49 AM -0400 29/10/2000, Dan Minette wrote:
>>If Democrats want to hang themselves politically and destroy their >party,
>>then I say let them, it will allow Greens to become the new >Left party in
>>the bipartisan system, and with both the demos and >reps on the right,
>>spliting that vote, the greens would have a chance at true victory.
>>
>>You see, I always have a perspective in the long term, the short >term
>>means little. It may take 20 years (or more, or less), like >the hole in
>>the ozone, but if the Democrats do that, mark my words, >it will happen,
>>they will fall.
>>
>
>One of the advantages of being older is that you have personal memories of
>this type of arguement. My socialist worker friends said almost the same
>things about 25 years ago. They said, if the Democratic party does not go
>to the left, then it will be replaced by a real leftist party. They expected
>that the Socialist Worker Party, or some other leftist party would be the
>majority party by 2000.
Well, and that didn't happen in the USA, but in Saskatchewan it did. That
was the place of origin for Canada's 3rd major political party, the NDP
(New Democratic Party) . . . a far more leftist government than either the
Progressive Conservatives or the Liberal Party. The NDP has had significant
local effects in Saskatchewan. Not necessarily *good* ones in recent years,
but significant ones nonetheless. It may or may not happen in the USA,
depending on the specifics of the the situation in the next few decades. It
is difficult to say what might happen, but it may certainly be possible
that an more-liberal backlash could result from what I anticipate will be a
dangerous, unhealthily right-wing government coming soon in both the USA
and Canada both.
