[lbo-talk] more noxious crap

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Sat Oct 3 10:16:59 PDT 2009


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



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