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"With the neoliberals at the helm, why should we expect more than managed decline?"
The
result of the right-wing lurch by Democrats under the presidency of
Bill Clinton, explains Johnson, is what we see today: "A Democratic
Party heavily bankrolled by corporate America; a party that relies
on lavish celebrity fundraisers over grassroots organizing; a party that
has succeeded in tempering the expectations of its voters through its
conflation of incrementalism and realism; and a party that peddles
the ahistorical notion that change is a top-down affair, rather than a
bottom-up struggle." (Photo: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters)
result of the right-wing lurch by Democrats under the presidency of
Bill Clinton, explains Johnson, is what we see today: "A Democratic
Party heavily bankrolled by corporate America; a party that relies
on lavish celebrity fundraisers over grassroots organizing; a party that
has succeeded in tempering the expectations of its voters through its
conflation of incrementalism and realism; and a party that peddles
the ahistorical notion that change is a top-down affair, rather than a
bottom-up struggle." (Photo: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters)
