DLC: a new kind of "progressivism"

There is a religious movement called Quiverful that literally seeks to turn American women into walking incubators for Jesus in order to provide the Religious Right with cannon fodder.

That isn't unusual. The DLC jumping the shark to join this kind of craziness is.

However, while one Kossack is tired of DLC slurs, the DLC he wants us to ignore have been very busy on our behalf. I think you should know what they've been busy with.

fair usage quotes follow:
(note: an extended explanation of Quiverful is also at the URL, I had to leave it out in order to keep the quote down to reasonable fair usage - go back to page one of the article to read it in full)

the DLC and Quiverful (quoted from: 'Arrows for the War' page 5 - Kathryn Joyce, The Nation)

Meanwhile, Phillip Longman hardly offers a left-wing counterpoint. Instead, he's searching -- at the request of the Democratic Leadership Council, which published his policy proposals in its Blueprint magazine -- for a way to appeal to the same voters Carlson is organizing: a typically "radical middle" quest to figure out how Democrats can make nice with Kansas.

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Aside from the centrist tax policies Longman is crafting to rival Carlson's, he urges a return to patriarchy -- properly understood, he is careful to note, as not just male domination but also increased male responsibility as husbands and fathers -- on more universal grounds. Taking a long view as unsettling in its way as Pastor Bartly Heneghan's rapture talk, Longman says that no society can survive to reproduce itself without following patriarchy.

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Presenting a thinly veiled ultimatum to moderates and liberals, Longman cites the political sea change in the Netherlands in recent years, where, he charges, a population decline led to a vacuum that "Muslim extremists came in to fill." Though individual, nonpatriarchal elements of society may die out, he says, societies as a whole will survive and, "through a process of cultural evolution, a set of values and norms that can roughly be described as patriarchy reemerge."

Longman's answer to this threat is for progressives to beat conservatives by joining them, emulating the large patriarchal families that conservatives promote in order not to be overrun by a reactionary baby boom. Any mention of social good occurring in regions with low birthrates is swept away by the escalating rhetoric of a "birth dearth," a "baby bust," a dying hemisphere undone by its own progressive politics.

Apparently the DLC hasn't been watching the election results. Kansas Republicans have been publically changing parties to Democratic, specifically to reject the religious nutcases the DLC wants to bring into our fold. We picked up a Congressional seat in KS and won other elections in what used to be a solid Red State as well.

Though the best argument against the idea that American progressives need to start breeding en masse is probably global warming. More people, regardless of politics and religion is the LAST thing this planet needs if the goal is either survival of this nation or our species.

If we want to win elections, we need to get our people to the polls and make populist economic arguments Red Staters can follow, not "beat" the Religious Right by breeding Democrats.