>>Wallach: What's happened has more to do with where the public is
>>than where the prominent figures of the left or the right are. On a
>>handful of issues, like globalization, campaign finance and
>>corporate welfare, I see that people you would think of as really
>>right wing and people you'd think of as the left of the left are
>>closer to one another than to moderates or centrists. Obviously
>>people agree a lot more on what they're against than on what they
>>are for, and what they are for is very different, depending on
>>whether you are Pat Buchanan or Ralph Nader.
>
>She started to characterize Buchanan's stance and how it differed
>from Nader's but she stopped herself, so I edited it out.
>
>Doug
But given America's current politics, "reform" or elimination of the IMF and the WTO will push us toward an America that Pat Buchanan likes and not toward an America that Lori Wallach likes, no?
Brad DeLong