Greens Go Nuts- Nominate opponent to Wellstone

[Joe R. Golowka]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
>
> >Nathan is a real puzzle. He isn't stupid. He isn't a coward. He has very
> >few reactionary positions (the only one I can remember is his offensive
> >support of U.S. war crimes in Yugoslavia). He has an activist record to
> >be proud of. So his absurd attachment to the DP is hard to explain or
> >understand.
>
> Yet my attachment is merely a more articulated version of the attachment of
> millions of progressive voters-- black, latino, union, feminist, even
> socialist.   You seem by your statement to be explaining all those millions
> of Democratic votes by some combination of stupidity or cowardice.  It is
> precisely because I understand and identify with those millions of other
> voters that I believe that third party politics is so doomed.  It's just
> unconvincing as a strategy and, by definition, if it can't convince those
> millions of progressive voters, it can't suceed no matter how nice it might
> sound in the abstract.

In the U.S. most oppressed people - poor people, blacks, latino, etc. boycott the elections.  The
faith in the democratic party held by Nathan has nothing to do with stupidity or cowardice but with
the fact that he still partially thinks within a bourgeois paradigm that supports representative
"democracy" and working within the system.  The same is true of third party advocates, especially
those more radical then the Greens but who advocate voting for them anyway.
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