>The most misguided aspect of the Greens in my mind has always been their
>assumption that you can build a mass movement around electoral campaining,
>rather than the reverse being true. I've always said that the say the
>AFL-CIO and the NAACP walk out of the Dems to form a third party is the day
>I'd walk out with them, since that would mean there would be a real base to
>build campaigns and turnout around.
The first sentence is competely true, but the next leads to perdition. The AFL-CIO and the NAACP wouldn't leave the Dem party unless they'd become radically different from what they are now, which is the means of binding their constituencies to a party that screws them. Is your idea of movement building standing by the side of those two groups, or did you have something more independent in mind?
Doug