Justin Schwartz wrote:
> And the New Democrats and the DLC had nothing to do with it. Nathan,
Nathan.
> Your arguments would be more persuasive if they were not so relentlessly
> partisan.
>
-I think there is an objective basis for this "Relentless partisanship" -on the part of progressives who want to stick to the DP. There is _no_ -content there to stick to, so defense has to be a relentless clinging to -the _form_, the abstract Party, abstracted from all contemporary reality -and _most_ of past actuality as well.
No, the abstraction is in those who studiously ignore the incredible specifics I give for my position, while responding with intellectualized sweeping statements that never, ever once justify how an alternative to hard step-by-step organizing in Dem primaries will lead to a better result.
I've pointed out that European Green parties have merged into governing coalitions there, so there is clear evidence that any sufficiently successful third party becomes indistinguishable from existing left factions of existing parties.
As I noted to Justin, are black folks in the US just stupid, in that they rate Clinton as the best President of the 20th century? Or maybe they are the ones who respond to concrete reality, while it in the intellectuals on this list that live with abstraction.
-- Nathan Newman