Like Jim, I, too, think that John was wittier before his Democratic Party turn, but he appears to be still operating on the same principle of finding and joining what he thinks of as "the only game in town":
<blockquote>So why did I join an insular clique whose methods I found ineffective and often juvenile, and which I knew I would leave at the first opportunity? Even now, writing this little polemic, I feel nothing like the defectors who left the Communist Party or radicalism in general to write numerous self-serving mea culpas over the years. All of these -- from the annoying Arthur Koestler of The God That Failed in the early Cold War days to the nauseating David Horowitz today -- have whined and complained of being duped and misled. I, however, knew exactly what I was getting into, and had no illusions about joining a movement which would one day bring in the Workers' Paradise. One cannot seriously be a defector from an organization in whose methods one never believed in the first place.
So, once again, why? To be crudely frank, *I had no other choice*. The sad fact is that the ISO is *the only game* in town when it comes to many college campuses nowadays. (emphasis added, "ISO: The Joy of Sects," <http://www.infoshop.org/texts/iso_sects.html>)</blockquote>
Now that he graduated from college and has a job in a trade union, I gather that he believes that he has "no other choice" but to support the Democratic Party, because that's "the only game in town."
There is an old saying in Japan: "Nagai mono niwa makarero." It's a Japanese equivalent of "if you can't beat them, join them." -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>