> Does one apply to join a political party in the US? I wonder
> what sort of
> questions are asked on E. applications or if this was just stuff he
> volunteered on a form that is usually not read other than
> entering vitals into a database?
No. In most places you join simply by declaring your party at a primary.
I once made the mistake of contributing to the Dems, and since then they have spent far more on brochures they mailed to me than my contribution was worth.
>
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: Grant Lee <grantlee at iinet.net.au>
> To: LBO-Talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:55 AM
> Subject: Mein Kampf a winner with big parties
>
>
> > There was a story in The_Weekend_Australian on Saturday
> about how novelist
> > from Cologne, Rainer Popp, as a prank had quoted
> unattributed material
> from
> > Mein_Kampf in a membership application for most of Germany's major
> political
> > parties --- they responded enthusiastically.
> >
> > Popp said: "for the first few days I expected two men in
> leather coats
> from
> > the Special Branch to knock on my door. Instead only the postman
> called ---
> > with packets of election material from zealous political
> headquarters."
> >
> > Among the quotes: "The stronger must dominate and not blend with the
> weaker,
> > thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling
> can view this
> as
> > cruel."
> >
> > Even the Greens said they were thrilled that he wanted to
> join them ...
> >
> > I have to say I'm not sure that the major parties in any
> western society
> > would be any different.
> >
> > http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/~zgr/zgrnews/News-Portal/news-portal.html
> >
> >
> www.flensburg-online.de/diverses/bewerbung-bei-parteien-mit-hi
tler-zitaten.h
> tml
Well, I looked. My German isn't very good, but the Flensburg Online quoted what looked like mindless "Welcome to the party" literature.
It's what the parties would mail you if you applied as Aeffle or Pferdle.
-- John K. Taber
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