Michael McIntyre wrote:
>
> I usually try to
> convince people that this is wasted breath. It never convinces
> anyone.
There are some years when it would be worthwhile to convince a few people to give energy to non-electoral ends. It didn't make any difference in 2000, for there was no particular non-electoral work to do. It did make a difference in 2004. If we could have convinced even a quarter of the ABBs to work instead in local anti-war groups -- it still wouldn't have made much difference, but there was a theoretical possibility for non-electoral work to make a difference, while there wasn't even a theoretical possibility for voting or electoral work to make a difference.
Carrol