[lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/24/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > an secular leftists create political institutions on the Left that
> > involve about 4.1% of the Americans every weekday, 15.2% of them every
> > weekend, each of the participants spending 1.21 hours every weekday
> > and 1.97 hours every weekend, and that get them to pay for the
> > institutions' operational expenses, missions at home and abroad, and
> > services to members and others?  If we can, we can rival religious
> > organizations -- if we can't, we can't.
>
> What's your fucking point here?

Looking at the activity levels of religiously active Americans gives
you an idea of concrete medium-term goals we can aim for, before
aspiring to an actual majority.  Creating local and national
institutions that get 15% of the US population to spend 2 hours per
weekend is a reasonable medium-term goal, a level necessary to begin
to change US politics.
-- 
Yoshie