Well, you'll definitely find this Economist article a good read. The pull? "Americans seem to believe that they and their politics have got more conservative; but perhaps they haven't."
I've backed Kerry since way back before he won the first primaries (4JKB4IA), but when was he ever "open about wanting tolerance"? Kerry stood for a lot of specifics: affordable health care, smarter foreign policy, &c. The values Kerry stood for were mainly those of nuance, not of tolerance.
That said, I do think the Democrats could do better by reshaping their rhetoric along the common thread of tolerance.
Running away always struck me as a little defeatist. Surely it'd be better to encourage people from elsewhere (like mmm, the Mediterranean!) to move here instead.
I've been to Ohio. Great place. We just need about 118,458 New Yorkers to move there before the next election and set things right.
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Well, you'll definitely find this Economist article a good read. The pull? "Americans seem to believe that they and their politics have got more conservative; but perhaps they haven't."
I've backed Kerry since way back before he won the first primaries (4JKB4IA), but when was he ever "open about wanting tolerance"? Kerry stood for a lot of specifics: affordable health care, smarter foreign policy, &c. The values Kerry stood for were mainly those of nuance, not of tolerance.
That said, I do think the Democrats could do better by reshaping their rhetoric along the common thread of tolerance.
Running away always struck me as a little defeatist. Surely it'd be better to encourage people from elsewhere (like mmm, the Mediterranean!) to move here instead.
I've been to Ohio. Great place. We just need about 118,458 New Yorkers to move there before the next election and set things right.
Not that I'm volunteering...