Just months before the 2002 election, Danny Goldberg, the music industry macher who shells out big bucks to progressive causes, received an invitation to a Democratic Party fundraiser. The invite featured the following quote: “Never before in modern history has the essential differences between the two major political parties stood out in such striking contrast, as they do today.”– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945. Goldberg could not believe what he read. “It seemed to me a terrible commentary on today’s Democrats that they had to go back to the 1940s to evoke a contrast with Republicans,” writes Goldberg in “Dispatches From The Culture Wars: How the Left Lost Teen Spirit,” (Miramax, 2003). His debut book delivers a blunt warning to Democrats: get with it or get trounced.
