On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> ... the core consituencies which form the Democratic base will vote
> for it anyway because they see it as the party which will defend
> their interests, however imperfectly, against the Republicans, who
> oppose them. This won't change until the unions and people of colour
> as well as other groups who have fought for equal treatment against
> Republican resistance themselves decide there is no difference
> between the two parties...
But that will never, ever, happen--the Dumbocrats will always maintain enough visible differences with the Repugnicons to persuade that base to vote for them. Only one thing will change this: the "core" will abandon the Dumbos when it is clear that they can never win. And what will make that clear? Only one thing--a left "Third Party" that can consistently get enough votes to throw every election to the Repugs. How many here went to a voting booth with a barf bag to vomit in after voting for Obama, the Lesser Evil? They may have had sectarian psychoses that made it impossible for them to support Nader--but even so they would have done better to support McCain, whose presidency would have been no worse than Obama's.
Shane Mage
> Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are
> appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only
> offering acceptable is silence.