What Makes Scoop Jackson Run
Burton, P.S.
What Makes Scoop Jackson Run? P.S. Burton The following article commer, timing of the emergencey of Senator Henry Jacksor, as a Democratic candidate...
...They protected their own...
...Kuhn then offers a hypothesis concerning the progress of science...
...What I intend to explore here is the phenomenon of resistance from established intellectual or professional organizations (to new ideas...
...While all the other Democratic hopefuls are carving up but one side of the pie -- the dovish side -- Jackson is attempting to reach that larger constituency of regular oldtime New Deal Democrats, labor people, and he's being very successful...
...At a time when certain affluent spokesmen of the Democratic Party seem to act as the apologists for permissiveness and chaos, and are advocating a foreign policy as if American decisions operated in a vacuum, Jackson's views seem out of place...
...While McGovern, McCarthy, Lindsay et al build castles in the sky, Jackson is building the kind of operation with the kind of forces around him that could very well bring him to the White House in 1972...
...The Synthetic A Priori Gary North A nyone who has devoted even a few years of his life to an investigation of the improvements in personal well-being that are possible through a conscientious program of nutrition inevitably confronts a stone wall of opposition to his findings...
...Jackson served six terms there before winning a senate seat in 1952...
...He distinguishes revolutionary science from what he calls "'normal science...
...Jackson is the type of Democrat they would rather vote for, were he available...
...It is hard to imagine a President named Scoop' "' quipped a popular New York Times columnist...
...I'm afraid that by wooing this faction, • by apologizing for it, by excusing it and glorifying it, the Democratic Party can be dragged down to defeat...
...Paradigm" is simply another word for "climate of opinion" or operating methodology of normal science...
...Personally, he's ruined this city...
...It meant that some potential producers were kept out of the market...
...He is, in fact, the only member of congress ever to receive the John Muir Award from the Sierra Club...
...Nothin' is workin.' All we got is more and more taxes...
...A whole field is organized around this very problem...
...On many questions the roots of the problems go back to the development of America's response to totalitarianism...
...Two years later, in 1940, he began his career in Congress with his first election to the House of Representatives...
...In fact, Scoop is the epitome of the counter "'counter culture...
...He argues that you can have both, with an improved technology...
...In history we have them all the time...
...And that, whether we like it or not, is what lawyers do today, and labor union members do, and professors with academic degrees do, and civil service people do, and above all what the American Medical Association does...
...It deserves a full-length study...
...12 The Alternative J a n u a r y , 1972 What Makes Scoop Jackson Run...
...But some sections of the business community are very friendly to Jackson...
...Keep your eye on Scoop Jackson...
...This is, mind you, a man who has voted for every liberal domestic reform in three decades -but has also rejected the cut-and-run philosophy in Vietnam...
...Many Democrats who have sat out politics during the past few years are backlashing with a progressive alternative to anti-anti-Communist "'liberalism", pro segregationist • 'liberalism", anti-labor "liberalism", anti-semitic "'liberalism" and a 'liberalism" which has developed an identification with the deterioratic...
...We can see how the adoption of totalitarian concepts by the New Left and anti-war movements has brought on far-reaching and catastrophic results...
...Nixon's mis-management of the economy...
...Particularly excited about him are those enlightened business men who know that although Jackson is one of the most active environmentalists in Congress, he has never succumbed to the trap of sacrificing economic growth to achieve environmental progress...
...Bill Inch Another cabbie looks at Lindsay Worst bum we ever had...
...And then one bright soul produces a new paradigm...
...While it has helped ~enerate a "counter The Alternative J a n u a r y , 1972 13 culture" of juvenile excesses, normlessness, decadence and pacifism, it has not infected all sectors of the society...
...This must be one of the most frustrating of life's experiences to professional investigators in the field, but it is more than a little annoying for those of us who have profited personally as laymen from dietary supplements and selective purchasing of food...
...Two of the most prominent recent victims of the medical guild are the late Dr...
...George Washington succumbed under such treatment in 1799...
...But Scoop Jackson's career as a common sense liberal proved to be popular enough in 1970 as an incredible 83.9 per cent of Washington's voters chose him as heir senator for the fourth time...
...In that shortperiod our country witnessed the labor movement ridding itself of those who would place the interests of the Soviet Union above the interests of its own members, the Progressive Party campaign becoming identified with the pro-Communist cause and falling into complete and utter defeat, and small but effective liberal antiCommunist groups asserting themselves...
...it is loosely named "'the sociology of knowledge...
...i f one year ago some political observer was to suggest that there would be a contender for the 1972 Democratic Presidential nomination who had supported the SST, had fought for an anti-ballastic missile system, had advocated a strong worldwide military position by the U.S., had staunchly supported Israel and who had once been offered the positions of Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State by President Nixon, you might conclude that this observer had taken to strong drink or worse...
...This adds up to our present government giving unparalleled opportunities and incentives to fatten private profit at the expense of the workers and housewives and consumers of America...
...Ivy's ease is better known: his publicity was better and his position in the academic world of medicine impeccable...
...While the effects of...
...Normal science is that conducted by the overwhelming majority of scientists and social thinkers: the careful, painstaking research done along established lines and making only minor contributions to an already accepted body of opinion...
...Why should we refer to an academic establishmeat as a guild...
...One is a maverick...
...Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Senator from Washington, is in the running, and he is running hard...
...He didn't use his own "'will power" or "'charisma" to propel himself into the race...
...Why is it that Scoop Jackson has attracted so much attention, given the relative obscurity of his name...
...He drives a '61 Chevy that once belonged to his mother-in-law...
...There were some beneficial aspects of the guilds, however: they tried to keep the quality of their production at a reasonably high level !not too high, since that might give one member of the guild a sales advantage...
...Many traditional Democrats and large segments of the labor movement have called upon Jackson to be a standard-bearer for their struggle within the Democratic Party...
...I think that many of these regular Democrats and labor people have made Henry Jackson the candidate...
...Robert Kennedy recognized these traits and urged his brother to choose Jackson for the Vice Presidency in 1960...
...They protect their own...
...But the medical profession can lay claim to having had more unsuccessful attempts, at intellectual suppression than any other guild...
...They required enormous courage, enormous dedication and enormous patience by the geniuses who accomplished the various feats...
...When JFK became convinced that the one post had to go to a southerner, he named Jackson Democratic National Chairman instead...
...Senator Jackson possesses some unique qualifications...
...If the words sound strange, it is just another indication of the erosion of liberal anti-Communist views today...
...There is no guild.which can boast that it has had no Galileo...
...What, then, makes the time 'ripe...
...Any number of things, but most important is the fact that the questions being asked by the "'guild," the procedures used to investigate the narrow questions and the results produced by the techniques of investigation no longer conform "to the reality of the world...
...The classic example, of course, is Galileo's hypothesis that the earth revolves about the sun, and not vice versa...
...He took on the late Senator Joe McCarthy, when everyone else kept quiet during the Army hearings in 1953...
...While some form of democracy is being practiced in Vietnam -- local elections are held regularly, a land reform program has been instituted, there exists a free labor movement (the CVT, some 500,000 strong and independent of the government) -- the anti-war movement will not be satisfied until it has beaten out of the U.S...
...He speaks to their real, every day concerns with a candidness which is rare in today's politics...
...Big capital is eager to sell practically anything to the Eastern bloc and juggle production, distribution, shipping and sales across national borders, like a sovereign nation, with no responsibilities to any government...
...Burto~ is what in days of yore was called a Liberal...
...While Jackson will probably not be able to boast the kind of "kiddie-crops" that Eugene McCarthy had the last time around, a number of very sober and articulate young people are gathering around his effort...
...The perplexing problem of "'liberal' or "conservative" as accurate political labels in this period of political topsy-turvy, is reflected in recent-polls...
...He asks new questions, he looks at the universe in a new way -- equally narrow, equally limited, you understand, for that is the way of all science -- and the entire frame of reference shifts...
...Very bad mayor...
...It was Kennedy who said, "...let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival of liberty...
...It was only a few months ago that the mention of his name would evoke snide remarks and insipid jokes among chic liberal circles...
...r Amerma as a world power...
...Unlike Senator Bayh, McGovern, et al, his daughter is trussed to a public school in Washington, D.C...
...Whether you know it or not, you are a part of this field of investigation, for there are few other areas of life that are so thoroughly organized for resistance to new ideas as the medical profession...
...His hair is short -- no sideburns...
...P . S . Burton The ]ollowh~g article commer, ti~ig o~ the emerge~ce of Se~zator Henry Jacksor, as a Democratic candidate for the Preside~cy was written by P.S...
...a political science student from New York City...
...Indeed, the infection has been spreading from the "peace movement" to the general citizenry at a galloping pace...
...Henry Jackson is appealing to those who have had the good sense to resist these efforts within the Democratic Party...
...The story can be found in a book by the distinguished social scientists, Dr...
...Jackson's popularity is not universal though as he would be the first to admit...
...The widely held American opposition to totalitarianism, .after the Second World War, seems to have drawn from divergent economic and social groups...
...From smallpox inoculation to Pasteur, medical experts dragged their feet and used every possible way to ridicule the opposition...
...In short, their international policy is irrevocably linked with their domestic policy dedicated to social mobility...
...You tell him I said so...
...Even a man well inside the guild must go about his business quietly, giving his fellow doctors the opportunity to accept or reject his findings at their own speed...
...Both are "'unrespeetable...
...Thus the Soviet Union seeks to project itself, its own realm of ideas into the problems and conflicts of the West -into our politics -- with the aim of weakening our ability to resist their military advances...
...J There was near universal agreement on the illigitimacy of totalitarianism...
...Joe felt Jackson was too soft on communism while Gene thought he was too hard...
...Anyone who wants a look at how the medical establishment can turn on one of its own members should look at Herbert Baily's book, A Matter of Life and Death (McFadden, 1964...
...In a speech given last May in San Diego he said that although none of the Democratic Party's leaders were in the radical fringe, " it is quite elear that some run the risk of marching to its drums...
...They banded together to artificially restrict production, thus keeping up prices of the objects produced...
...Because the American people have in the past shown their willingness to take the risks of confronting totalitarian might with out own military power, the Communists have been forced to seek other means to weaken our defense and deprive free men of their liberty...
...Jackson has laced into the absolute radical fringe who seek to steal the Democratic Party from the people...
...Or are they...
...It is fitting that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring appeared in that same year...
...There is no wide support for U.S.China detente in order to make peace in Southeast Asia a possibility...
...It is no accident that it is becoming clear to many that the American working class is the clearest proponent of sane domestic policy and the backbone of opposition to Communism today...
...While the war in Vietnam against Communist aggression is grinding to an end, it is still very much a war in the United States...
...He takes particular pride for having won the scorn of "'both McCarthy's" -- Joe and Gene...
...Some new problem, regarded by the younger men especially as tl~e crucial issue, does not lend itself to the prevailing 'paradigm" o f science, as Kuhn calls it...
...People who are fed up with recent nonsense in the Democratic Party, and large sections of the labor movement see Jackson's concerns as totally congruent to their own...
...His suits are plain, and he insists on cuffs...
...What Dr...
...Old-style Democrats who learned their lessons under Truman, a smattering of intellectuals who have not prostituted themselves in the brothel of cheap anti-Americanism and the New York Review of Books and Party regulars who are finally reacting to what appears to be the social snobishness of sectors of the Party, are among those who are beginning to reassert themselves within the Democratic Party and the country once again...
...In short, we are not all geniuses, even those of us (I am tempted to say especially those of us) with a string of academic degrees after our names...
...Clearly, business" opposition to Communism is on shaky grounds today...
...To make things even more interesting, that contender is at the same time a civil rights and conservation advocate and an admired friend of organized labor...
...Schools, institutes, professional associations and other well financed and staffed structures generally conduct normal science...
...Cops In Your Goo Natural Foods vs...
...The issue has not been resolved here...
...The McCarthy period and the spinelessness of intellectuals in the face of it notwithstanding, liberal antiCommunism was the inheritance which the Democratic Party brought to the White House when JFK took office...
...He was hounded into recanting his belief, but the revolution - - both intellectual and astronomical - - was accomplished...
...Today the tables are turned...
...How can one claim to defend this country and speak for this country while at the same time carrying on policies which only depress America's living and technological standards...
...Doctors stopped bleeding as a cure less than two centuries ago...
...The medieval guild was an organization of craftsmen or scholars, teachers or preachers, but generally men connected with the sale of some service or product...
...They were, universally, met with hysterical resistance from the organized intellectual guilds...
...He opposed the creation of HUAC in the 1940s, an unpopular position at he time...
...Where there are no Democratic candidates concerned with the economy and law and order, where there are no Democratic candidates willing to speak against the excesses of the • 'radical" students and against suicidal foreign policy formulations, Democratic voters are casting votes to demogogic, penny-pinching candidates, who at least appear to have their interests at heart, In many cases I am talking about traditional Democratic voters who have never crossed party lines...
...Alfred de Grazia, The Velikovsky Affair (Universily Books, 1966...
...Jackson won his first election at age 26 by winning the post of county prosecutor...
...He carries his own luggage when traveling...
...On domestic questions Scoop Jackson's record is as liberal, if not more • liberal, than any of the leading "'peace" Democrats...
...Then who makes the big breakthrough...
...The only credential a man needs to certify his "liberalism" is a reputation for participating against a strong defense posture...
...Note for example the popularity of Great American Series A cabby looks at Lindsay Lindsay ain't worth a damn...
...What kind of President do you think he'd make...
...The labor movement most clearly since the period of the European recovery following the Second World War, has carried on a policy of international involvement...
...The disenchantment of Democratic voters with the New Left-New Politics crowd is evident from recent elections...
...He has fought the John Birch Society and he has never been accused by liberals of being on the wrong side on a civil rights vote...
...But Jackson has been defined by the advance "'peace" forces as a "conservative...
...Kuhn thinks that generally two types of researchers do: the man on the fringe 6f an academic "guild" and the man outside it altogether...
...He is considered the leading conservationist in the Senate, having authored nearly every piece of important environmental legislation in recent years...
...It has hit the academic world like a bombshell, or better yet, like a ticking time bomb that is about to go off at any moment...
...There is no discussion on Southeast Asian recovery (for instance a Marshall Plan for Southeast Asia...
...Jackson's expertise in a wide range of fields is well known throughout the halls of congress...
...Krebiozen, the promising drug used in the treatment of cancer, proved his downfall...
...They prefer ability and effectiveness over the recent politics Of style...
...Max Gerson and Dr..~mdrew C. Ivy...
...The economists had a man named Gossen back in the 1850s whose views broke though a few decades later...
...There, Scoop Jackson's candidacy seems tailor-fit for many Americans both in and out of the labor movement, who seek relief both from the radical chic sections of the Democratic Party and from Mr...
...the anti-war and New Left movements have been designed to discredit anti-Communism as a tent of American foreign policy, it has not been wholly successful...
...Senator Jackson has published four books on national security and is regarded as the Senate's leading expert on the Middle East...
...Any premature announcement that might call attention to their...
...Richard J. Whalen, a former Nixon speechwriter, has called Jackson the "'very model of what the party's Presidential nominees traditionally have been...
...Basically interested as a union movement with the existence of free and operating labor movements in other countries, they defend the continuation of open societies against ultra-rightist and pro-Communist assault...
...her ideas exploded in the environmental revolution of 1969...
...Many forces around Jackson see this development in domestic and international affairs as a major area of concern...
...Just a few months ago he was the darkest of the dark horses...
...The anti-war and New Left sentiments have filtered through large sectors of the upper classes and among many of their representatives within the Democratic Party...
...In 1962 Thomas Kuhn, a professional physicist and historian of science, produced one of the most important books of the decade, "'The Structure of SCientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press...
...Anyone even remotely connected with diet therapy is grist for the Establishment's intellectual mill...
...a defeat in Vietnam...
...The American working class appears to be the major force in this recapturing and redefining of what the Democratic Party ought to be...
...On the international scene, the United States met the challenge of expanding Communist power and became the .protector of the non-Communist world...
...No compromise, just defeat, capitulation, now...
...He is a champion of continuity, who takes his foreign policy from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, his domestic policy from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and his fundamental stance vis-a-vis the electorate from the New-Fair Deal tradition of speaking to and for the common man...
...Most of all, they protected their own...
...The astronomers' latest candid'ate is Immanuel Velikovsky, whose books were suppressed by the guild (yes, I'm afraid some of the leaders taught at Harvard...
...He's tough on Nixon, tough on the New Politics chic and tough on .the Communists...
...Consider the record of Senator Fulbright...
...the other is an invader...
...But such a contender does exist and on 19 November he declared his candidacy...
...Anyone who believes he has discovered some truth that might benefit his fellow men runs the risk of experiencing the traditional role of the prophet: he is unrecognized in his own land...
...Witness one simple example: the acceptance of the 'legitimacy" of a Vietcong victory in Vietnam...
...According to the new defini14 The Alternative January, 1972 tion of "liberalism" a man can spend three decades voting against practically every social domestic reform, beginning with civil rights and remain an impeccable "liberal...
...They policed their ranks, keeping trade honest...
...He won wide respect for his conscientiousness and for his courage in being an outspoken liberal in the none-too-liberal 1950s...
...They are having Wouble hearing the voice of the people because the noise from the absolute left is so loud...
...By examining Jackson's nineteen year record in the Senate, and his steadfast consistency on the issues, they know where he stands...
...And if the time is ripe, either can produce a scientific or intellectual revolution...
...Kuhn did in his book was to trace the history of major scientific breakthroughs in the last 350 years, and he described them as just that, breakthroughs...
...yet they now feel they have to rebel...
...Ben Beitelbaum iml el such books as I984 and Animal Farm...
...No one enjoys being labeled a quack - - not even quacks...
...they are usually called revisionists, since they want to revise some accepted historical explanation...
...The growth of overseas subsidiaries shows that the conditions of international investment are dictated by private investment, which knows and respects no flag except the dollar sign...
...What has made his recent popularity so significant...
...Recently the ranks of the "'undecided" or "'independent" voters has greatly increased, not out of political conviction but more out of utter confusion...
...and he is not Lincolnesque," supposedly an essential ingredient for candidates this season...
...Burtoll...
Vol. 5 • January 1972 • No. 4
