[lbo-talk] Go Out And Make Me Do It (Was: The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters)

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 16 09:06:11 PDT 2004


I'm not normally a supporter of the Democratic Party, at all, although I'm with the ABB crowd this cycle, but Sergio's remark put me in mind of a story I once read about FDR. A bunch of labor leaders came to him to lobby for some reform legislation. After talking with them for a while, FDR said, "OK, you've convinced me. Now go out there and make me do it."

That is the fundamental lesson of democratic politics. If you count on your leaders to do the right thing without being made to do it, you're naive. And you are bound to be dispppointed. The problem with the Dems is not that they have to be made to do it, but that so often they can't be made to do it.

jks

Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: SergioL652 at aol.com
>So it's clear that a range of civil rights activists representing a range
>of minority interests have clear concessions in Kerry's program.
-So it is a significant concession for the DP to work for civil rights! -That is how far they have fallen! Somebody has to push them to -support civil right for all!

Yes, it is a sign that minorities have power in the Democratic Party that it fights for expanded rights for those minorities. How is it a fall from anywhere that the Dems continue to fight to expand civil rights?

What in your mind would be a sign of such concession?

Nathan

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