[lbo-talk] Re: Powerless Religious Right?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 15 10:23:54 PDT 2004


Chuck0 wrote:


>Nader's campaign is an example of "politics as theater." It is
>getting radcial and progressive ideas into circulation, albeit not
>as effectively since the corporate-controlled Democrats have been
>fighting Nader tooth-and-nail (which shows in Kerry's falling poll
>numbers).
>
>I'll just out that most people on this list would be supporting
>Nader's campaign if this was 2000. His campaign then was just as
>much about injecting ideas and issues into the political theater as
>it is now.

That's a rather flattering view. How has political discourse changed in the U.S. as the result of either Nader's 2000 or 2004 runs? Barely if at all. One of the reasons I'm agin' him now is that he did so little after 2000. Theater isn't organizing, especially if the audience is almost immeasurably small.

Doug



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