[lbo-talk] Excuses, Excuses

[R]

At 10:30 PM 11/3/2004, you wrote:
>OK, now us consistent progressives have to git our digs in.
>
>Time to die, fakers.  Perhaps we'll show you some mercy.  Unlike yourselves:
>
>"People should instead be asking progressive Democrats like Kucinich and 
>Russ Feingold how long they plan to stay with a par! ty that finds their 
>platforms intolerable.

wouldn't it have been a good idea if people did this four years ago?  as 
well as ask several members of the black caucus the same question.

i think the result would be that the questioners would have discovered 
"liberal" beauty is only skin deep.

R


>They should leave and join the progressive movement outside. But that 
>would require them to overcome the fear of suddenly disappearing from 
>mainstream politics."
>
>"This time around, it is probably the case that those people who voted for 
>Nader and even Cobb did so in full awareness of what they were about. It 
>is from this base of people, and those people who were effectively 
>disenfranchised due to the nefarious efforts of the Democrats to quash any 
>type of mass progressive movement either inside their party (Would the 
>real Dennis Kucin! ich please stand up?) and outside, that a movement must 
>be cobbled together."
>
>To which we can add the folks at the MWM, especially.  From the Evil 
>Counterpunch, who turned out correct:
>
>http://counterpunch.com/memon11032004.html
>
>-Brad Mayer
>
>"Britain ain't a real country anyway"
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