Language of Betrayal

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 18 10:01:10 PST 2000


Leo Casey wrote:


>Even if Nader and the
>Nader campaign had not said a word in this vein -- and
>it really borders on the surreal to suggest that they
>did not continually attack Gore, the Democratic Party
>and Gore supporters for having betrayed the causes of
>the left -- your own words, and no one else's
>attributed to you -- employed this language of
>betrayal.

Leo, comrade, I'm on the road, so I don't have a lot of time to pound the keyboard, but I'm curious - do welfare "reform," capital punishment, higher military spending, and honoring the memory of Jorge Mas Canosa represent the values of the left, such as it is?

Doug



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