[lbo-talk] more noxious crap

[shag carpet bomb]

At 12:58 PM 10/3/2009, SA wrote:
>I diagnosed the problem as being that right now, "any coalition [between 
>liberals and the left] would be us joining them, not the other way 
>around." I lamented the fact that "the [anti-Iraq war] marches organized 
>by radicals ended up largely serving, de facto, as foot-soldiery for Nancy 
>Pelosi and MoveOn" and that under present circumstances the dynamics of a 
>left-liberal coalition are such that radicals are forced to "tag along 
>behind, all their shouted caveats and objections lost in the wind." 
>Finally, I concluded that "the left needs to stop thinking of liberals as 
>the Other. *But* that has to come in the context of some movement that 
>would allow the left to actually exert some gravitational pull" [emphasis 
>added].

gravitational pull on what?

shag