On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
>> The great historic social movements[aside from the only one that succeeded. abolitionism] - for trade union rights and social insurance, for equal rights for women, minorities, and gays, for an end to US wars of aggression, for safe and clean energy, for civil liberties, etc. - have all sought to reform rather than overthrow the existing system and have perforce attached themselves to the Democratic Party...
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> Which is why all of them have either accomplished nothing or have had whatever modest accomplishments they took credit for whittled away to almost nothing by the bipartisan political swindlers
You'd think, from reading this sort of thing (which I have about 1,000 times), that there's a great untapped vein of radicalism in the U.S. population that's frustrated by the constant sellouts of the Dem Party. There isn't, as far as I know.
Doug