----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
> Unlike Doug, I don't see our fractured system as necessarily
> anti-progressive-- it prevents easy national discourse on reform but it also
> prevents similar centralization to rollback past reform successes. It means
> leftists have to slog through the details of day-to-day politics to win,
> which I admit most of the left is currently unwilling to do, preferring to
> bemoan inevitable corruption. But that is a current problem, which past
> iterations of the left were not infected with and were therefore often quite
> successful.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
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Well past iterations of the left weren't dealing with how to make a $10+trillion political economy easily intelligible to a country of 280 million citizens either.
Ian