[lbo-talk] o'rielly's white man's burden

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Jun 19 06:59:56 PDT 2004


sweetie, i don't know anyone here running around trying to convert rightwingers. who you be talkin' 'bout?

kelley At 01:23 AM 6/19/2004, Carrol Cox wrote:


>Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> >The purpose of the left is to
> > mobilize that 20%, and if we do so, eventually an overwhelming
> > proportion of americans will passively agree with us.
> >
>
>Of course, that is incredibly difficult to do, especially if almost a
>majority of those who ought to be doing that work are obsessed with
>convincing all those rightists who don't even know of our existence (so
>what does it matter what we say to them). Of course many of those
>rightists _would_ eventually end up on our side -- if and only if _now_
>we concentrate on the 20% who, if mobilized, can change the weather
>within which u.s. political thought is formed.
>
>Carrol
>
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