>Why is the Venezuelan experience irrelevant?  Left-wingers in 
>Venezuela -- with the president himself a left-wing populist -- are 
>larger, more militant, and far better organized than in the USA. 
>What makes you think that we can succeed in "owning" commercial TV 
>communication when left-wing Venezuelans can't?
So what's your vision? The U.S. left is very very weak. How to make it even as strong as the Venezuelan left?
Doug