This is the introduction to a letter Larouche wrote on Dec. 24th.


Open Letter to the DNC And Presidential Candidates
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
December 24, 2003
There are five leading crises immediately facing the nation, and, therefore, the present leadership of the Democratic Party:

The world is sliding over the crumbling brink of a global breakdown of the present floating-exchange-rate monetary and financial system, a breakdown worse in its practical implications than that of 1928-33.

Since the January 2002 State of the Union Address, the United States has been plunging toward a spreading global pattern of asymmetric warfare, only typified by the deteriorating situation in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

As a result of the continued toleration of the policies of "preventive nuclear warfare" associated with Vice-President Cheney and the neo-conservatives, the foreign relations of the U.S. have deteriorated at a rate and in a way not seen in the memory of any of us. This state of affairs has undermined the capabilities of our nation to secure the kinds of cooperation demanded by the combination of presently accelerating world economic crisis and the worsening state of military and related affairs.

As a result of the continuing shift of the character of the U.S. economy and social structures, away from our former world leadership as a producer society, to our decadent state of internal affairs as a "post-industrial" consumer society, the political system of the U.S. been undermined by a worsening estrangement of the households of the lower eighty percentile of our family-income brackets from the thinking and ranks of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

The Democratic Party's bungling of the 2000 general election, and the 2002 mid-term election, especially the preceding and present Presidential campaign, threatens to plunge the nation into a protracted period of Republican, one-party rule, in fact. Under present domestic and world-crisis conditions, a continuation of that trend of the 1996 and 2000 campaigns through 2004, would, in point of fact, threaten the continued existence of our system of constitutional self-government.

Full Letter to the Democratic Nat'l Committee