I really wonder sometimes. People on this left who talk about what pure views a person needs to have in order to be part of the solution rather than the problem, I wonder what they would think if they took 60 hours to go person-by-person in a working-class neighborhood in suburban tampa, south philly or rural wisconsin, and run their checklist of correct views by each individual. It'd be an unpleasant thing, to meet so many nice proletarians who qualify as scumbags, no? If carrol on lenin's tomb met even one person they felt had acceptable politics, I'd be surprised.
Doug is fond of throwing around the number 10%, to estimate the percent of people in the US who have 'solidly left-wing politics'. But judging from what we think it takes for one's politics to be 'solidly left-wing', is there anyone on this list who thinks that there's really 30 million americans who fit the bill?
> It makes him equally as bad as most people in the United States.
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> Christopher E. Doss
> Moscow, Russian Federation
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> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> wrote:
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>> From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>
>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Franken wins Minnesota
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:52 AM
>> Hi Richard!
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>> Doesn't this make Franken equally as bad as every other
>> elected democrat?