Anybody who really wants a strong left third party shouldn't expect to see one any time soon. The question is what we should be doing now, so that we can get one going in a couple of decades.
At 10:32 AM -0400 9/17/03, Jon Johanning wrote:
>Getting left activists sufficiently unified to fit into one party at
>this point would be like herding cats, as the discussions on this
>very list show every day.
I'm not sure if this list is representative of left-wing activists in the USA.
At 10:32 AM -0400 9/17/03, Jon Johanning wrote:
>I have always registered independent since I first came of age. Now
>and then I flirt with registering Dem, also, but somehow pitching in
>to select the Dem candidate never seemed important enough to me to
>overcome my gut feeling that I don't want to soil myself by
>associating with their party (I know that it's not the same as
>actually joining the party.)
Continue to trust your gut feeling. :-> -- Yoshie
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