Lonely on LBO

[Kevin Quinn]

At 12:25 PM 11/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
>At 11:36 AM 11/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Ralph Nader thinks his performance is valuable because it will build the
>>Left? On the contrary, he has discredited the Left big-time among the
>>constituencies who would have to figure in any viable Left: trade
>>unionists, minorities, the poor.  I dare Nader to explain to the unions and
>>blacks why his ideas deserve a hearing after this. Of course, he would have
>>to start by telling them what dupes they were to turn out in such
>>phenomenal numbers for Gore.  The Young White--oh sorry, Green--Party is
>>dead. RIP
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>hate to break it to you but i don't think any but they unions think the 
>left represents their interests. everyone i know that fits those categories 
>thinks the left are socialists and commies and we know THAT failed.
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Yes--how was I not seeing this? The point is that now, contrary to what
Nader says, people who would have to be in any successful left movement
have even more reason to ignore leftists. Now, in addition to being
probably Communists, they are the people whose sectarianism turned the
White House and the Court over to a nihilistic piece of crap.