{"id":68659,"date":"2018-11-29T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68659"},"modified":"2018-11-29T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:44:15","slug":"birds-of-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68659","title":{"rendered":"Birds Of A Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe in “guilt by association”.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I can sense that an off a lot of Democrats, especially in the Twin Cities, are not going to be especially mortified by this development <\/a>\u2013 which would have been considered comical 30, to say nothing of 60 years ago:<\/p>\n

published his essay last week at People\u2019s World<\/a>, a \u201cdaily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.\u201d” data-reactid=”23″ style=”margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none”><\/p>\n

Communist Party chairman John Bachtell\u00a0<\/span>published his essay last week at People\u2019s World<\/a>, a \u201cdaily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201c[L]abor and other key social forces are not about to leave the Democratic Party anytime soon,\u201d Bachtell promised. \u201cThey still see Democrats as the most realistic electoral vehicle\u201d to fight against perceived class enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bachtell, 58, is playing the long political game and he has a strategy, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cFirst, we are part of building the broadest anti-ultra right alliance possible, uniting the widest array of class (including a section of monopoly), social and democratic forces. This necessarily means working with the Democratic Party,\u201d the communist leader explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cSecond, our objective is not to build the Democratic Party. At this stage we are about building the broad people\u2019s movement led by labor that utilizes the vehicle of the Democratic Party to advance its agenda,\u201d Bachtell further expounded. \u201cWe are about building the movements around the issues roiling wide sections of people that can help shape election contours and debates.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201c[W]e are for building movements in the electoral arena and see engagement in the electoral arena and democratic governance as a vital means to further build movements,\u201d Bachtell also said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But don’t you dare say the Democratic Party has moved to the left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe in “guilt by association”. On the other hand, I can sense that an off a lot of Democrats, especially in the Twin Cities, are not going to be especially mortified by this development \u2013 which would have been considered comical 30, to say nothing of 60 years ago:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68660,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659\/revisions\/68660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}