Andrew Golis

New Deal Magazine, a new liberal online mag here at Harvard, managed to score an interesting and pretty extensive interview w/ Ho Dean that I found fascinating. My favorite section:

There’s so much power concentrated in corporate hands, which of course President Bush is rapidly accelerating. They have no understanding or faith in ordinary American people to be responsible for democracy, and I think that’s why we’re losing democracy in this country. With the concentration of corporate media, with the concentration of corporate industrial power, and the denigration and losses endured of both economic and personal status of the middle class and working people at the hands of anti-labor activities and so forth, [we are losing democracy]. I think a lot of that is because we don’t share power well. The country will be healthier if we de-centralize power and share it.

Might he actually be too intellectual for this job (DNC Chair)? I don’t know, when someone is that thoughtful in politics it scares me because I think it’s too good to be true.

Another hilarious part, when asked about the Democratic Leadership Council (a conservative Democratic think tank):

The problem with the DLC is that they’re largely the hand-maidens of their corporate donors. I think the DLC is sort of a cult built around a few of their founders. Initially they had useful ideas, but more recently, they’re sort of silly more than anything else; they’re inside the beltway rabble rousers rather than serious thinkers. I think we spend too much time worrying about the DLC. I know most of the people in the Democratic Party hate them, but we just ought to ignore them and they’ll go away. Nobody knows who the hell they are outside of the beltway, anyway.

What a guy.

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