[lbo-talk] Sidelining Blacks, Losing Elections

[John Lacny]

Meanwhile, back in the real world, a mostly union effort 
registered 100,000 new voters in Philadelphia last year, 
which is what gave John Street his surprisingly wide 
margin of victory in an election where the polls were 
super-tight and even pointing toward a Katz victory. 
Street was not exactly popular, but the black masses of 
Philadelphia, once contacted and mobilized by enough 
skilled organizers, knew who the real enemy was and 
prevented Karl Rove's evil surrogate from becoming 
Philly mayor. If this fact alone were the only good news 
out there (and it isn't), I would still be pretty optimistic 
about the possibility of winning Pennsylvania this year 
despite how close the polls are in this state.

There are a legion of turf wars between and among the 
various 527s, and unlike know-nothing know-it-alls and 
Nader's Traitors, I don't pretend to understand what they 
all are. Nor -- if I did know -- would I be interested in 
sharing any such information with people who have 
objectively sided with the enemy. The main fact is that the 
527s and similar extra-party efforts are carrying out their 
activities apart from the Democratic Party proper, and in 
some cases have scored success. Apart from mouth-
breathing, vapid, infantile ultraleftist children -- and the 
singular figure of Ralph Nader, who deserves to have his 
fingernails plucked out and then then the rest of his body 
drowned in a vat of boiling water -- most people recognize 
this as a step towards political independence on the part of 
progressives. People who live in the real world will do what 
they can to make this process last past the election.

To sum up, then, I am interested in reading and hearing
thoughtful critiques of this whole process from people who 
are actually on our side, but not when they emanate from 
people who are working to get Bush elected.

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John Lacny
http://www.johnlacny.com

People of the US, unite and defeat the Bush regime and all its running dogs!