More Attitude

Eric Raymond of Armed and Dangerous, who is presumably not a Democrat, has written a marvelous article on what a truly responsible Democrat party would look and act like. The highlights:

Support war on Iraq, but insist on nation-building afterwards...
Derail the Homeland Security Act and other intrusions on civil liberties...
Stop the War on (Some) Drugs. This is a civil-rights issue. ...
Support school vouchers. Another civil-rights issue — it's precisely minorities and the poor who most need to escape the trap that the public-school system has become, ...
Speak up for science. Religious conservatives are up to a lot of anti-scientific mischief ...
Stop the RIAA/MPAA from trashing consumers' far-use rights...Young people, who are trending conservative these days, care deeply about the RIAA attack on file sharing. Wouldn't you like to have them back?

Of course, after all the money the Wellstone and Mondale campaigns got from Hollywood, I just don't see that RIAA thing happening...

Many of these, by the way, are things the Republicans can at least nod toward in some degree to consolidate their gains. Like what?

We'll go into this later...

Posted by Mitch at November 26, 2002 03:22 PM