[Magdalen] Next Steps

[Sally Davies]

Thank you for this Allan

You have given a lifetime's perspective which I somehow find comforting,
and although I was a bit taken aback by some of the things that Moore had
to say (and by the thought of what such a rebellion might lead to), I would
concur that he is within the normal politics of social democracy, albeit
more militant than many.

Here in SA we have a liberal/social democratic/socialist coalition - both
formal and informal - which is gearing up to take on a corrupt elite
through the discourse of "state capture".

Interesting times as they say!!

Sally D

On Friday, 11 November 2016, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In fall of 1948, I became a freshman at JHU, attended a number of beer
> parties for Henry Wallace, joined the United World Federalists and began
> calling myself a liberal.
>
> I ran out of money in 1951 and enlisted in the US Army to get the GI Bill.
> I'm glad I did and nothing in US politics will ever change that.
>
> I've been a Democrat since 1952, was active in the Civil Rights movement
> in the 1960's and have opposed war from Vietnam through the present.
>
> I don't see anything in Michael Moore's positions, or the notion that the
> Democrats are too neoliberal, that merits a purge of Kate Conant, either
> voluntarily or involuntarily, from the Democratic Party.
>
> I'm the child of working class immigrants and understand the rage of laid
> off and dispossessed working and middle class people. They gave up on the
> "system", but how is that any different than the 1970's?
>
> Trump said a lot of nasty things but now seems to be running backward on
> some of them. Hillary and Obama have both said gracious things, as has
> Trump himself.
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