> There are fewer of these people around than there are single-taxers.
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> Warring against invisible opponents is the politics of fools
I don't want to fight them, but I do want to work around them.
The typical excuse I keep hearing for giving the WWP a headline role in the anti-war coalition is, "They already got the permits for all the good dates." Perhaps that's more a sign of how disorganized the rest of the left has become than anything else, and perhaps it'll go away if we do become better organized. I can't help thinking it's a pathetic excuse.
That still leaves the question of how to become better organized. A good start might be organizing anti-war activities on our own nickels, rather than shrugging and saying, "Oh, hell--let ANSWER do it."
At the demo here in Atlanta this spring, two people approached us.
One was someone from ANSWER, pushing their petition with total self-confidence.
The other was someone from (I believe) the Georgia Peace Coalition. The poor man looked like a whipped dog. When we were cool to his approach (we're here on a work assignment--it's not our home), he looked resignedly at us and said, "We're not with those people." I gather he'd had to explain that all afternoon long.
All the best,
John A
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