A while back I posted the original document published called "The Politics of Evasion" by the DLC(Democratic Leadership Council) here..
Now I didn't get much discussion going on the content as everyone seemed happy enough to brush it off as "old". But now I think would be a good time to post the follow-up to that original document to give more insight into the world of the "winning" DLC.
As a summary of the first document, I'll post what the follow-up document states as the thesis of the original, then I'll post the link and we can discuss it from there.
The Politics of Evasion(written Sept 1989) - "In it we argued that the problems of the Democratic Party are deep and pervasive, that they extend well beyond th personal qualities of individual presidential candidates, and that the party has changed. The three myths that constitute the politics of evasion, political illusions that allow Democrats to avoid the hard work of political introspection and change, are even less valid now than they were then. The Myth of Mobilization, (that we need only mobilize core Democratic voters) is rendered increasingly implausible by generational change and by a resounding vote of no confidence in the Democratic Party's traditional economic message. The Myth of Liberal Fundamentalism (that Democrats have lost presidential elections because they have strayed from traditional liberal orthodoxy) has been further undermined by two issues that have come to the fore in the past year - foreign policy and economic preferences. And finally the Myth of the Congressional Bastion (that Democratic control of the House and Senate can indefinately withstand presidential election disasters) runs up against the hard logic of 1992, when long standing structural features of that election could combine with Democratic presidential weakness to threaten Democratic congressional dominance."-The Politics of Evasion Revisited, May 2 1991. (bolding mine for ease of reading)
Now for the link to the "Revisited" Political mirror
The Politics of Evasion Revisited
I'll pull out a particularly interesting(and eventually proven true) piece of the almost 12 page document.
Wow - talk about seers - no?
Anyway the summation of this Revisitation is quite powerful.
Wow - powerful powerful stuff right there. Sometimes brutal honesty is what is needed to refocus vision and direction. It clearly guided Clinton to a set of wins. It has been interesting to watch this current crop of candidates to see who models themself, their campaigns, and their message closely with the ideas and spirit of what was put forth by the DLC and "mastered" by Clinton.
CkG
Now I didn't get much discussion going on the content as everyone seemed happy enough to brush it off as "old". But now I think would be a good time to post the follow-up to that original document to give more insight into the world of the "winning" DLC.
As a summary of the first document, I'll post what the follow-up document states as the thesis of the original, then I'll post the link and we can discuss it from there.
The Politics of Evasion(written Sept 1989) - "In it we argued that the problems of the Democratic Party are deep and pervasive, that they extend well beyond th personal qualities of individual presidential candidates, and that the party has changed. The three myths that constitute the politics of evasion, political illusions that allow Democrats to avoid the hard work of political introspection and change, are even less valid now than they were then. The Myth of Mobilization, (that we need only mobilize core Democratic voters) is rendered increasingly implausible by generational change and by a resounding vote of no confidence in the Democratic Party's traditional economic message. The Myth of Liberal Fundamentalism (that Democrats have lost presidential elections because they have strayed from traditional liberal orthodoxy) has been further undermined by two issues that have come to the fore in the past year - foreign policy and economic preferences. And finally the Myth of the Congressional Bastion (that Democratic control of the House and Senate can indefinately withstand presidential election disasters) runs up against the hard logic of 1992, when long standing structural features of that election could combine with Democratic presidential weakness to threaten Democratic congressional dominance."-The Politics of Evasion Revisited, May 2 1991. (bolding mine for ease of reading)
Now for the link to the "Revisited" Political mirror
The Politics of Evasion Revisited
I'll pull out a particularly interesting(and eventually proven true) piece of the almost 12 page document.
Wow - talk about seers - no?
Anyway the summation of this Revisitation is quite powerful.
Wow - powerful powerful stuff right there. Sometimes brutal honesty is what is needed to refocus vision and direction. It clearly guided Clinton to a set of wins. It has been interesting to watch this current crop of candidates to see who models themself, their campaigns, and their message closely with the ideas and spirit of what was put forth by the DLC and "mastered" by Clinton.
CkG
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