Letters to the Editor

This letter is associated with the following article:
Read other letters about this article
Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular?
It is the Democrats' failure to provide meaningful opposition to Bush (thanks to their "Blue Dogs," consultants and TNR-types) that is the principal cause of their unpopularity.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-08-21]

  • I am continually fascinated

    by Democratic partisans who think leftists are being "purists" for refusing to support the party, and for proffering that we should punish them by voting for third party candidates.

    Here is the problem with this argument. What the partisans are implying is that left purism is an expression of individual moral values trumping the need to have Dem majorities. (After all, when lefties voted for Nader, what they were really saying is they did not want to be held culpable for the inevitable moral failures of the Democratic Party) Democratic partisans are therefore saying that we should surrender our own individual moral values for the good of the party.

    Do you not see the horrific consequences of this kind of immoral groupthink?

    -- sunny miller
    [Read sunny miller's other letters]
    Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:20 PM
Read other letters about this article

Letters Help