Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Now I'm depressed

Matthew Yglesias:
Just as during the 2002 Homeland Security debate, you see that the Democratic Party is very substantially the creature of public sector unions. When an issue is important to them, Democrats will really fight for it. Not just lip service -- they'll run meaningful political risks on behalf of the public sector unions.

To stop a war with Iraq? To halt torture? Illegal surveillance? Suddenly you see a lot less speed, a lot less determination, and a lot less backbone.
It's not just that there's no powerful anti-war constituency, it's that there's several powerful pro-war constituencies in the US.

Ugly.

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