[lbo-talk] Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats

[John Adams]

On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at 08:02 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> The point is not that the Democrats are "in collusion with the 
> Republicans" but that the Democratic Party establishment's chief 
> concern is that "a third party in conjunction with a strong mass 
> movement would challenge the two-party duopoly," shown by the fact 
> that the Democratic Party establishment did much more to defeat Green 
> Matt Gonzalez (who was supported by a large number of progressive 
> rank-and-file Democratic voters and even progressive local Democratic 
> officials like District 9 Supervisor Tom Ammiano) in the SF mayoral 
> election than Republican candidates in other local elections.

Oh, my goodness--they ran harder in a bigger election than a smaller 
election? Those fucking Democrats--what will they think of next? 
Bastards! And they ran that campaign against a party that's out to kill 
them--shameful! The Democrats aren't following the script--they're the 
ones who are supposed to lie down and die, not Gonzalez. What are they 
thinking?!?

It's this sort of ditzy analysis that builds a strong movement for Left 
Loserism: "All the fun of opposition, and no risk of ever holding 
power."

Loserism sucks,

	John A