Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Nathan, you
> really need to pause a minute and reflect on what's happening not
> only to your politics, but your mind. You're too smart and talented
> to write nonsense like this.
Assume that the DP and the AFL-CIO represent the ONLY possible source of social progress in the U.S. Hence the future depends on the continued flourishing of those institutions (defined in terms of their current leadership). At the present time that sole hope of humanity is blundering badly, risking its very existence.
Compare this to the crisis faced by the CPUSA during the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
In such situations true believers can only make the best arguments possible, no matter how shoddy, with a straight face and hope for the best. Smart, talented, and well-intentioned men and women have followed such a course many times over the millenia -- and it is not always even wrong to do so.
Carrol