of course, many would argue that Bush is so BAD that even a Rockefeller Republican is okay.
>Real change in America has always come when masses of people take to the
streets on their own initiative–the civil rights movement, the women’s
liberation movement, the labor movement, the Vietnam antiwar movement. The
problem so far is that these kinds of movements have never coalesced into a
lasting political party that could offer an alternative to the twin parties
of American capitalism. Rather than argue for a vote for someone who is sure
to repay our support by cutting our living standards and promoting American
power abroad, progressives and socialists would do better to argue for a
break from the Democrats, focus on building the struggles that make all real
progress possible–and create the political alternative that can embody them.<
this suggests that our main efforts should be _outside_ of the electoral arena. Even the Greens are a snare & delusion. But if the movements outside of electoral politics grow & prosper, the GOPs, the Demoncrats, and the Greens will shift to the "left" in an effort to capture the movement's vote. The point is to keep on developing the movement even then.
Jim
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