so yeah! instead of spending 1 hour voting, and 10 hours over the next 18 months arguing on LBO, 5 hours chatting it up about politics elsewhere, and instea dof the $25 donation, in our huge massive numbers, we should donate all that to organizaing. Coz THAT would make a difference.
glock. where's my glock?
p.s. and now, reading moi, i add the third term to the interminable debate.
At 07:15 PM 6/20/2007, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Joseph Catron wrote:
> >
> >
> > If, God forbid, 2008 comes down to a Subway Series, I'll probably vote
> > for Mike over Rudy or Hillary. And I'm not entirely convinced it will
> > be a protest vote.
>
>Your use of this metaphor is telling: if all the non-DP leftists in the
>nation turned out for the DP the difference would -- zilch. We are like
>the fans in a subway series, mrely cheering or booing from the
>bleachers. No election ever has been close enough for us to make a
>difference. (One minor exception: CP voters in the Republican primary in
>Wisconsin nominated McCarthy -- they hoped he would be easier for the DP
>candidate to defeat than LaFollette.)
>
>Conscious leftists make up too small a proportion of the electorate to
>be relevant to electoral politics. If we could achieve some unity we
>could have considerable effect -- outside electoral politics, with
>consequent effect on electoral politics.
>
>Carrol
>
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