First Published: Frontline, Vol. 6, No. 7, September 26, 1988.
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Your editorial endorsement of Michael Dukakis (Frontline, August 29) seems a logical extension of your policy of support to liberal Democratic politicians, particularly Black liberals like Jesse Jackson. Dukakis is not Black nor very liberal and so you dug quite deep to explain your support of the Democratic Party in this year’s election.
You suggest that the Democratic Party poses a potential challenge to “Reaganism.” The policies of the Reagan administration have been bipartisan policies with strong, consistent support from the Democratic Party. “Reaganism” is not exclusive to the Republican Party.
You say that to “write off the electoral arena ... amounts to taking a permanent seat on the sidelines of U.S. politics.” Writing off the electoral arena entirely would be wrong, just as it would be wrong to endorse capitalist political machines such as the Democratic Party. The Democrats, to which you have devoted yourselves and the electoral arena in general, are the sideline of U.S. politics. Is there no stopping your line of march to the right?
Glen Munroe,
New Orleans, Louisiana