[lbo-talk] Development of Political Underdevelopment (was electability)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/23/07, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >Part of that is bad faith, as Sartre explains it: people, especially
> >those on the left side of the political spectrum, freely deny their
> >own freedom, thus avoiding responsibility for the choices they make.
> >"I have the courage of convictions, but politicians don't," say the
> >voters on the Left, all the while voting down politicians who have the
> >courage of convictions they lack.
> >
> Maybe. A lot of it is simply lack of time.
>
> Work (including commute) takes 10 to 11 hours a day for most.
>
> Then there's kids, eating, sleeping....

Those who don't have time -- the bottom half of America -- don't vote
at all.  Electoral politics is a game of the top half.
-- 
Yoshie