Democrats
Shortly after Gavin Newsom started marrying gays in San Francisco, and my heart was warmed by the pictures coming from SF city hall, my head predicted to some friends that Newsom's actions would cost the Democrats the 2004 election. (I also opined that Newsom would claim "civil rights" as his sole motivation, but what was a bigger motivation for him was the prospect of launching himself on the national stage.) Some say the results in Ohio last week validated my prediction. But you know, I didn't post that prediction online. So it's time to step up. I just posted my "Democrat Demise" prediction. Prior to the election, I had been saying to friends that if Kerry lost this election, the Democrats would blow up. A friend just forwarded me Arianna Huffington's column of yesterday. My take: she's right that "we need to completely rethink the Democratic Party" and that Democtraic leadership is "misguided" and "amateurish" ; but she's less right in suggesting that issues of war are distinct from issues of the economy. Both of those issues are explained by Corporate interests that are antagonistic to those of People.
[posted: 11/12/04]