[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Wed Aug 13 10:13:57 PDT 2003



>> Interesting how "elect somebody who will be a good governor" is not
>> on the list of things that Nader thinks are worth doing.
>>
>> What a dork.
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>> Brad DeLong
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>"It is the country that desperately needs leaders that the strong democrat
>worries over and pities...On its face, leadership is opposed to
>participatory self-government; it acts in place of or to some degree
>encroaches on the autonomy of individual actors...Complete self-government
>by an active citizenry would leave no room for leaders or followers.
>[Benjamin Barber]

Therefore we ought to elect an actor so that we can have an incompetent governor?

Didn't somebody once call this kind of thinking "an infantile disorder"? Vladimir Ilyich was many things, but stupid was not one of them.

Brad "Lenin" DeLong ^^^^^^^^ CB: At least Nader is not a rabid dog bred from the recipe of the Bolshevik model.



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