[lbo-talk] Karl Rove's Strategy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

[lbo-talk] a vision..., Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com, Thu Nov 
4 06:20:51 PST 2004:
>Essentially, Rove seems to have shown that the entire previously 
>existing logic of American party politics no longer holds (or at the 
>very least can be and has been temporarily suspended): the idea that 
>heating up your base loses you more votes in the center than you 
>gain on the wing.  His argument was that you can use your base 
>issues to split the electorate and then win purely on turnout

That's precisely the strategy that leftists should use: use the 
issues that matter to your base -- class issues like the Iraq War, 
universal health care, public works jobs with living wages for the 
unemployed, shorter workweeks, etc. -- to split the people and then 
win on turnout -- except that leftists can't do this through the 
Democratic Party.  We have to do this primarily through social 
movements and secondarily third-party campaigns that serve as the 
movements' electoral expressions.
-- 
Yoshie

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