You just don't get Nader's clever strategy. He deliberately ignores democracy in his own organizations in order to awaken people to the sad truth of their own nondemocratic society. "Wait," they will say, "Nader's organization is nondemocratic -- but then is not society as a whole?!? Our eyes have been opened! It is time for radical democracy! Carpe diem!" It is only in this way that the spell of the Dumbocrats can be lifted.
--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> From: Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Ralph loves the nice plutocrats
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 5:26 PM
> He doesn't practice democracy where
> he has the power to -- in his own
> organizations.
> You might want to argue in this primitive political
> environment
> democracy within
> progressive organizations/movements is not practical. Maybe
> that's
> true, but it
> raises other problems, including the need to lie to
> everybody about
> how you operate.
> That can't end well.
>
>