>Unfortunately, after decades of being panicked into an atomized support
>for the Democratic Party, the progressive left milieu has simply
>forgotten this as political practice.
I know you thrive on a self-image of being a lone warrior against confusion and compromise, but really, quite a lot of the "progressive left milieu" thinks about this all the time. How else do you explain the Greens, the Labor Party, Naderism, Working Families Party, etc. Fact is it's really really hard, given the structures of American politics and ideology.
Doug