Party for Your Rights

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Fri Jun 30 20:33:59 PDT 2000


On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 TRox51 at aol.com wrote:


> 5. Given Nader's (and Public Citizen's) dismal history of
> coalition-building over the past 3 decades, what makes you think Nader
> is the man to unite progressive-left forces in this country?

This is not his job, this is ours. No picture-perfect leader scraped off the back of a cereal box is going to bail us out, only messy, imperfect, democracy can do that: the slow, painful task of building a new set of parties and institutions, while revitalizing old ones. The real question is, is the Green Party the right vehicle, or is the Labor Party, or do we need both? (I'm agnostic on this one -- must be that pernicious postmodernism again).

-- Dennis



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