[lbo-talk] Short-Term Tactics at Odds with Medium-Term Needs

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 10 11:45:40 PST 2006


Nathan Newman wrote:


>But you'd rather have your preferred rhetoric defending a non-existent
>single payer system than an actual legislative victory that helps working
>families. Which pretty much sums up a chunk of the far left these days.

Yeah, politics should be about conforming to what exists rather than trying to challenge it. And one of the bedrock principles of social democracy, universal public health insurance, is now far left. Bizarre.

Doug



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