Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 11:58 AM -0600 11/10/02, Peter K. wrote:
>  >A political party, like a whole society, is an ensemble of social
>>relations, not a conscious & unified individual of rational choice
>>theory. Hence the common practice of personification
>>(cowardly/couragegous etc) is rather similar to daily stock market
>>reports in which "the market" gains enthusiasm, feels tentative, etc.
>
>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.

DP and RP are not political parties with leaders and members; they 
are loose groupings of candidates with group and individual 
fundraising machines.  The majority of Democrats do not go to local 
DP meetings, not even in the middle of an electoral campaign, just as 
the majority of unionists do not go to their local's union meetings, 
except when they are, or about to go, on strike.
-- 
Yoshie

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