Letters to the Editor
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A rose by any other name...
I have seen references to the same bunch of so-called foreign policy experts as comprising the "security class." They have enormous influence over policy makers of both major parties.
There is an equally wooden-headed group of political consultants who advise the Democratic Party leadership. Somehow, election after election, they manage to hold onto their positions, despite being spectacularly wrong about so many things. What they and their paymasters have in common is that they fear the progressive wing of the Democratic Party more than they fear the Republican Party. Also they have a condescending attitude towards progressives, whom they see as being soft-headed. Of course the opposite is true. Progressives want Democrats to fight hard, while the consultant class want them to play nice. If the boat gets rocked too hard, some of them might fall overboard.