> There's something to what you say, Nathan. Going to the barricades over the
> right to hawk plastic schlongs in the Weekly Shopper is the kind of leftish
> kamikaze strike that has kept the GOP chortling and in office for many years
> now. The left should of course pick its battles better and focus on
> dollars-and-cents issues ... or so you would think. The problem is -- as,
> e.g., Thomas Frank discusses in What's the Matter With Kansas? -- real
> economic issues are often non-starters with voters at large. Increasingly,
> any realistic discussion of the economy requires frank acknowledgement of
> America's class structure and inequitable distribution of wealth. But class
> is the third rail of US politics that you dare not touch, the red sector
> that you dare not enter -- the ultimate no-no. Americans' squeamishness
> about discussing class makes it impossible for the left to make the appeals
> it should be making and makes it impossible for the country to come to grips
> with its problems in any realistic way.
>
> Carl
Bullshit. Gore's rhetorical (if not substantive) position on class after the '00 convention was "they're for the powerful; we're for the people."
-- Luke