>No one in these precincts, I suppose, would deny that long-term
>organizing toward whatever your desired goal is (socialism,
>anarchism, mass resistance, ...) is important.
I've observed a good deal of attacks on Greens and other independents from the self-identified ABB quarters on LBO-talk and elsewhere (not all ABBers do this -- for instance, you and Justin haven't done anything of the sort). One of the main arguments of the self-identified ABB is that four more years of Bush will be not business as usual but an emergency deserving of an emergency response (akin to the Popular Front against fascism) from all non-Republicans, even from non-Democrats and anti-Democrats. So, I'm asking a question: do the ABBers really think of Bush re-election as an emergency? The answer is that they don't -- they merely use the rhetoric of emergency as a scare tactic, trying to intimidate or guilt-trip Greens and other independents into backing _any_ Democrat.
If the ABB really believed what they said, they should have Plan B. -- Yoshie
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