Todd Chretien writes:
>The Democrats do nothing to challenge the
indifference of the poorest
people and youth in the United States to the
outcomes of elections,
because they benefit from it. The biggest threat to
the Democratic
Party's status as an alternating ruling party is an active,
confident
and organized working class. The submission of most of the left in
the
United States to the mantra of "Anybody But Bush" is of
enormous
importance to maintaining this subjegation.<
Though this is accurate (as is the critique of the DP's anti-democratic ways), it misses an important dimension of the middle-class white ABB movement, i.e., the culture war stuff. Though it's very true that the DP doesn't want organized and class-conscious workers, there's a big component of the working class that doesn't want abortion rights, gay marriage, etc. The yuppies that Chretien discusses are typically more in favor of those, and are deeply worried about who Bush will appoint to the Supreme Court (someone _worse_ than Clarence Thomas?)
Jim Devine
