> 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?
On liberals. A coalition where we have the ability to push them in our direction, rather than us getting pushed to move in their direction.
SA