I cannot imagine anybody making a better defense of the Dems than you do. I wish that I could believe your arguments.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:01:57PM -0400, Nathan Newman wrote:
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> As for Bush, I think you are insane given the defunding of abortion groups
> internationally, the cancelling of ergonomics standards, his rightwing
> judicial nominees, and the passage of the tax cut. None of those would have
> happened with Gore.
>
> And you don't ever make change by kicking someone in the shins-- you take
> them over. One reason the Dems are worrying about NRA voters is because the
> unions are forcing them to, since that is where the unions are hunting for
> their supporters. As I continually argue, the Democrats are not a "mere
> corporate fundraising" organization or actually any kind of organization at
> all. Each candidate is their own fundraising committee- the national
> committees may play a role, but so do the union PACs and volunteer armies in
> deciding who gets nominated. Any individual Democrat is neither the result
> of the corporate fundraising or the unions but usually some hybrid along the
> spectrum, depending on their district and how strong progressive organizing
> has been.
>
> The latter we can effect as progressives and I prefer to work to move the
> spectrum to the progressive side, rather than hope that making things worse
> will somehow encourage them to get better in some mystical way - that I have
> rarely seen happen.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
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