GVChamp,
that's an interesting addendum. i especially like this part:
that's how you know you've reached the quote unquote real left, when the writer starts slinging around the dread word neoliberalism...;-)
BTW, this is not a new conversation for Democrats-- part of the old liberal resistance against the Clintonian Third Way was that it was a stalking-horse for elitism on the left. for that matter, a lot of the same themes were used against JFK's technocratic New Frontier.
that's an interesting addendum. i especially like this part:
because a great deal of the phenomenon described in this essay is a product of what I’ll call meritocratic liberalism. (I’m going to avoid the neo-word because it’s always so controversial for some reason.)
BTW, this is not a new conversation for Democrats-- part of the old liberal resistance against the Clintonian Third Way was that it was a stalking-horse for elitism on the left. for that matter, a lot of the same themes were used against JFK's technocratic New Frontier.
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