Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa')

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 21 15:01:27 PST 2007


--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


> cynical than being "pure." At least the "purists"
> stand for something.
>

[WS:] Like what? Could you provide some empirical specifics of what this "something" is? All I see thus far on the "purist" side is constant kvetching, blaming, and finger pointing, but no constructive policy proposals.

Andie:
>The purists help push the spectrum
>to debate to the left.

[WS:] Nah, they cannot push anything, they just move in circles gazing in their own navels. To push something, one needs certain gravitas that weighs more than 1-3% of the votes.

Wojtek

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