Well, a party has a "leadership" which sometimes responds to its membership (sometimes not) so I don't think it's that off the mark.
>Leftists _must_ build a new left that forever breaks with any hope of
>operating through or with the DP. Probably that means simply, for the
>time being, ignoring the electoral arena _entirely_.
Nonesense. As much as I don't like the Democrats and like Nader, the Labor Party, etc., if the Senate gets 60 conservative votes - enough to override fillibusters things will get a lot worse. And I'm not willing to risk the chance that it won't go,
>If this is true, the place to start is refusing to support DP "liberals"
>such as Wellstone. That tendency is utterly destructive of the future
>hopes of a strong left in the U.S.
>
>Carrol
The trick would be to hold off a fillibuster-proof conservative Senate majority *and* build a large movement outside the DP.
Peter