[lbo-talk] Where Do Leftists Live in the USA?

[R]

At 07:40 AM 11/2/2004, you wrote:
>On Nov 1, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  Production of electoral campaigns takes a whole lot more time and money 
>> -- especially in the United States -- than what is often called "protest 
>> politics."  So, it is a mode of politics that gives the rich a lot more 
>> advantage over the poor.
>
>That is an important point. It explains a lot about how little in touch 
>third-party organizations are with people of color and the poor (the real 
>poor). As far as I can see, the third-party thing is primarily about 
>middle-class people satisfying their own desires, rather than putting 
>their resources at the service of the people who are the most down-trodden 
>by the system.
>
>Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org

any party in the US that does not fit this description, jon?

R


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>suspended judgment about God, or consider that the God of theism is an 
>inadequate symbol of our ultimate concern; it is just that we wish we 
>didn’t have to have a view about God. It isn’t that we know that “God” is 
>a cognitively meaningless expression, or that it has its role in a 
>language-game other than fact-stating, or whatever. We just regret the 
>fact that the word is used so much.
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