> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> But isn't that SOP with MoveOn? Years ago when I was on their list they
> seemed to be polling their members every week in order to decide their
> positions.
Before I unsubbed from their list years ago, these always struck me more as a variant of push-polling than some authentic democratic mechanism. Glad to hear about their opposition to Afghanistan, perhaps it's time to resub again?