New York Post-June 23, 2000
M'SOFT: WILL DEMS PAY AT THE POLLS?
By FLOYD FLAKE
WHETHER or not it succeeds in splitting up Microsoft, the Justice
Department's Antitrust Division may have effectively split off a
significant piece of the coalition needed to elect Democrats this
November.
The decision - a potentially might blow at the great prosperity
America has been reaping from the information and technology
explosion - came from federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. But
people will not remember Judge Jackson come November. Instead,
with the help of millions of dollars in GOP advertisements,
they'll remember that it was a Democratic Justice Department that
let loose anti-business lawyers on Microsoft, the symbol of
new-economy prosperity.
It is sheer fallacy to equate Microsoft's Bill Gates with
Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller. The fact that Gates may match
Rockefeller's obscene wealth seems to be enough for the
overzealous champions of economic control. But unlike Standard
Oil -a cabal of 10 or so owners and manipulators - Microsoft is
owned by millions of Americans and others around the world.
Tremors in the economy almost always penetrate the electoral
world. People have always voted with their wallets and purses,
and don't expect them to change soon.
And people expect government to play nothing more than a distant,
background role in the New Economy. That arrangement has allowed
millions of Americans to become wealthy. Now, millions of
shareholders in Internet-related corporations will remember June
7, the day Jackson's decision came down, as a day when the world
changed - because the Justice Department overreached.
The decision has thrown an electoral monkey wrench into
Democratic prospects for this fall - especially in key states
where the party needs to score big if it is to win back the House
of Representatives and elect Al Gore.
The digital revolution has spread to every nook and cranny of the
nation, but states such as Washington, California, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, New York and Colorado are the most recognized names in
the e-commerce and digital-technology explosions. A few areas are
as dependent upon these burgeoning industries as the Old South
was upon cotton. Just as New England depended on the health of
its mill towns a century ago, places like Redmond, Wash., Silicon
Alley and Valley, and parts of Colorado depend on the vitality of
Internet-related industries.
Old-economy industries used to drive politics in their states,
and sometimes even nationwide. Politicians from the old-economy
industry states lorded over trade and tariff legislation and
labor law - and produced more than their share of speakers of the
House, Senate majority leaders and even presidents. New-economy
industries have the potential to drive politics today.
Republicans have long used issues such as gun control to drive a
wedge into the Democratics coalition. (In 1994, the issue claimed
the scalp of House Speaker Tom Foley.) Today, the GOP will look
to exploit this new wedge issue: an aggressive, anti-business
Justice Department and administration that has hurt regional
economies.
And even as labor unions give only tepid support to an
administration that passed NAFTA and the final stage of GATT,
business may remember the Clinton team for pulling apart
Microsoft.
Republicans have found a godsend issue that almost every GOP
politician can capitalize on in short order.
The irony of this issue is that most of the young people involved
in the Internet revolution, with their propensity toward liberal
and progressive issues, would disproportionately vote Democratic.
That is no longer a given if they vote with their wallets and
purses.
This newfound power of the new economy, its startling wealth, and
now the sheer numbers of people working in these industries could
pose a potential threat to politicians who don't serve their best
interests. That is a real prospect for politicians this fall.
Democrats who can't find a way to overcome this issue will have
no one to thank but the Clinton Justice Department.
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