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.
>
That's very true. But in the case of Afghanistan, they did condescend to poll, numerous times, and it was only recently that the membership turned against the war in significant enough numbers to justify any kind of lukewarm, halfhearted campaign.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."