Cockburn is such a socialist jackoff I can't even get through one of his articles, and haven't been able to in several years.
But it's nice to see the left is getting some guts. I think the dems should be honestly what they are. I don't toss around the "socialist" label all the time, but the left since FDR has veered that way just as the republicans since Goldwater have tacked right. (I think the Republicans are at core center-right, but the religios right has tugged it a little--just an observation.)
But the dems True North is socialism. I think they should be honest about that. Sure, I'll be pleased that this takes them out of elected politics until they collapse and form a more traditional dem party as well as the Cockburn-Moore-Dean-KERRY wing, but at least they constituents will have a party representing their true ideals. That this leads to the dems being out in the woods for a decade as a new John Kennedy democrat emerges is all for the good.
Here's John Kerry, offering himself as a man of war, as a former prosecutor, as a candidate who hasn't got one single substantive, useful idea about turning the U.S. economy around and improving the overall state of the world. The only difference from Bush he can identify is that he went to Vietnam, killed Vietnamese and collected a bunch of medals, which some of his Navy colleagues who fought there at the same time say he didn't deserve.