>Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sun Mar 28 10:23:50 PST 2004:
>
>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>>The more Nader/Green bashing, the more power to the the DLC wing
>>>of the Democratic Party.
>>
>>I thought part of the rationale of the Nader/Green (whatever the
>>weird relations across the virgule) strategy was to push the Dems
>>to the left. Is it working?
>>
>>Doug
>
>The rationale is not the same as an effect.
Hmm, so when you find out things aren't working out as planned, you don't have a rethink? Or does the effect just not matter, in light of a higher principle?
I supported Nader in '96 and '00, but things haven't worked out the way I'd hoped when I did - there's been no positive ideological or organizational change as the result of his candidacy. So this time I'm against him. As Keynes is supposed to have said, "When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?"
>In any case, the axiom of "the more Nader/Green bashing, the more
>power to the the DLC wing of the Democratic Party"
Technical point: Kerry was not really the favored candidate of the DLC.
Doug