10-28-2016, 05:39 PM
(10-28-2016, 07:00 AM)Odin Wrote:(10-27-2016, 07:54 AM)Einzige Wrote: I think you're wrong about that.
Eric there is a hippie. The hippies, the New Left, etc. aren't the same as the DLC/Third Wayers; the only way I think you can confuse them is if you lump all of the "Blue Boomers" into a single whole.
The only time the New Left exerted power in the Democratic Party was in 1972, with obvious results. Carter was a New South governor, Mondale a New Deal throwback, Dukakis a centrist technocrat, and the Clintons are basically struck from the Tsongas/Dukakis centrist mold.
If you want to blame a demographic for the "elitization" of the Democratic Party, blame the yuppies. I mean, sure, some of the hippie concern for alternative lifestyles and the like bled over into that mindset, but the hippies were earnest about being populists.
Really, the Democratic Party became "elitist" in an attempt to compete with Reagan for the white upper-middle-class suburban vote. That's not at all the same thing as accepting EtG's worldview.
A lot of the "New Left" is from the same demographic as the neo-liberal technocrats, and it shows. Look at Eric's own posts about how he sees all us folks out here in "flyover country".
I'm from flyover country - I live in a trailer in the rural St. Louis metropolitan area - and I largely agree with his views. The majority of my neighbors are, generally speaking, worthless.