Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party by Mark Stricherz

Author:Mark Stricherz [Stricherz, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History & Theory, National, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Political Science, Political Process, American Government, Conservatism & Liberalism, Politics
ISBN: 9781594032059
Google: pqhireFA6ckC
Goodreads: 2218355
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2007-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

In September or early October 1969, McGovern wrote a draft of a revealing and little-noticed article for Playboy. Besides quoting Dutton, who was identified as a member of the “California Board of Regents,” McGovern argued that the Democratic Party should alter its coalition, putting young people at the heart of it: If there is to be a new direction in American society, it must begin with a new combination of voters interested in providing that direction. It seems to me that the most important challenge now before the youth of this country is to work toward forming such a new coalition—a coalition of the young, the poor, and the oppressed minorities, of the workingmen left in the wake of a changing technological society, of the educated affluent who now recognize that the goals of society are out of joint. A voting “coalition of conscience” needs to be formed and mobilized. The energy and inventiveness of young people are absolutely indispensable to the success of such a coalition.

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