Richard Belzer: What would Jesus do? (No, Really) - Politics on The Huffington Post: "...Traditionally the Democratic base had always been the working class, lower middle class, African- Americans, professors, artists and entertainers (the kinds of people Conservatives find to be most annoying and electorally irrelevant). For some surprisingly heartless and what they, I assume, thought was a brilliant way to transform the party into a more 'business' savy entity. This of course required amnesia about the great lesson Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign made clear. Not only did he inspire the traditional base of the party but, people who, after his assassination then supported George Wallace!
What does all this mean? It means that the too clever by half DLC has alienated the party's massive base and never attracted those from the other side: hence we truly have by definition one major party in this country: 'The Business Party.'
It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive AND not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick and elderly. In other words: What would Jesus do?"
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