Word: democratization
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...Washington last week, it seemed like 1993 all over again. Hillary Clinton was talking to a bunch of New Democrats about health care. There were, however, a few modifications. Senator Clinton was no longer talking about a sweeping plan to force employers to provide insurance for their workers. Indeed, she favors John Kerry's approach of providing less intrusive tax credits to the uninsured. And the New Democrats she was talking to weren't the usual suspects either: not the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which provided the intellectual muscle for Bill Clinton's presidency but a younger, newer group...
...Enter the New Democrat Network, which began life in 1996 as a political action committee-that is, a group able to raise money and donate it to candidates. It was led by a From and Joe Lieberman protege named Simon Rosenberg who, at age 40, is a generation younger than From and markedly less combative. Until this year, the ndn was regarded, accurately, as a DLC clone. But a serious rift has opened between the two groups. "There's a debate in the New Democratic world about where we are going," Rosenberg told me diplomatically. "And if it's true...
...didn't support Dean's candidacy or agree with him on many issues," Rosenberg says, "but I appreciated how he did what he did. I also thought it was time for New Democrats to declare victory in the intellectual wars and make peace with the party infrastructure." In fact, Rosenberg's group continues to give financial support to New Democratic candidates in places like Oklahoma and South Dakota, where the traditional Democratic message doesn't work very well. But he has also reached out to the more adventurous liberals in the mainstream party-groups like MoveOn.org and bloggers like Daily...
...turns out John Kerry doesn't like nuance so much after all. His speech last week in Phoenix, Ariz., before the Democratic Leadership Council used the word strength--or strong or stronger or strongest--three dozen times, marking the presumptive presidential nominee's most obvious pitch yet to prove he's not your dad's Democrat. But it's not the only noticeable change in his rhetoric since he swept up left-leaning voters in the primaries. Kerry has dropped references to "Benedict Arnold CEOs" who outsource U.S. jobs, preferring instead to talk about his proposed tax cuts for corporations...
...were slow in coming - real desegregation only occurred with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and aggressive enforcement by the Department of Justice, which denied federal funds to any segregated school - they were revolutionary. Greenberg cites encouraging evidence today as the half-full approach: there are black Cabinet members in Democrat and Republican administrations; blacks hold top management positions in major corporations like Citibank, Xerox, Time Warner, and Merrill Lynch. When Greenberg started practicing law in 1949 there were only two black U.S. Congressmen. Today there...