[lbo-talk] another TP poll: still whiter, righter, more

[brad bauerly]

Bhaskar wrote:
>Way ahead of yourself.  There's no reason for me to repeat what I think
>needs to be done, but it starts with socialist regroupment.  Also, I'm a bit
>more optimistic about the prospects of siphoning off some of that 27
>percent, as opposed to the 45.
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I have less faith that we will ever siphon off some of the 27% who
oppose the TP.  I would venture that they are mostly partisan
Democrats who I doubt will ever move to the left of that party.  These
are the folks who think we can tinker with the problems of capitalism.

 They will follow Obama wherever he leads them. I am beginning to
think that the 40% has more potential.

You seem to be saying that socialist regroupment means that the left
can't be growing.  That we need a period of inward gazing.  I don't
think it should be an either or.  An expanding left will regroup
itself and I think the reason we are so fractured is because we are
declining, not the other way round.

Brad