> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > This is ludicrous. The left, whatever that is exactly, in the U.S. is
> > small and weak. It has no chance of electing a president, or even of
> > significantly influencing a presidential campaign. It's a waste of
> > time to think otherwise, though that didn't stop the Nader campaign.
> > The left, whatever that is, would be better off spending time at
> > lower levels of politics - city, state, even the House of
> > Representatives, but the presidency is a lost cause.
>
> Can you help me make the same point with the few voting anarchists out
> there?
>
> I keep telling them that our numbers are so small, that the two parties
> don't care who we vote for, so we might as well stick to our principles
> and go forward with tactics that match those principles.
>
> Kucinich strikes me as being like those creepy liberal guys I run into
> at parties who want to talk about 9/11 and the JFK assassination. I'm so
> damn polite and my Lutheran niceness makes it hard to find an out when
> these guys corner me.
>
> Please! Let me go flirt with some women! I don't want to talk about
> thermite! This is a party fer chrissakes!
>
> Chuck
>
Sure BUT. His program as articulated would be supported by most lefties so
why not support anyone who is pushing that agenda. I agree that the
putative left needs to go local as its only hope of rebuilding itself and
having any popular purchase. But there also needs to be some coherency.
Otherwise so many points of light and all that.
Travis