On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> There's a recurring tendency on the left to blame the dismaying
> actions of
> organizations, from online communications services to labor unions,
> on staff
> and leadership.
Labor unions, for all their many faults, do have some internal democratic mechanisms. The leadership is elected, if not always directly. There's no way for MoveOn's "membership" to communicate with the leadership at all, unless the leadership condescends to poll the masses.