On 6/15/2011 5:56 PM, SA wrote: On 6/15/2011 6:16 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
What Doug describes has certainly been my experience locally. Even those who moved away from the Dems were apt to slip back with the slightest excuse to do so. And in the last 3 or 4 years it has particularly bled the initial leadership. We are now in the uncomfortable position of having radicals at the center.
SA] I'm not sure I understand. It sounds like you're saying Democrats who used to be active are no longer active. And that they've "slipped back." Slipped back to what? Do you know they stopped being active because of their Dem affiliation, or are you just assuming? And how does the affiliation have this effect exactly? It sounds like you may be automatically equating withdrawal from activity with some sort of "reinsertion" in the DP, but is this just an assumption? And what would that even mean? You yourself say the local Move-On ,"while pushing Democrats as elections near in between times behaves more like an activist group."
SA .-------
Sloppy writing. Perhaps we should try to go back to 3 posts a day and stick to it.
I guess I had two different contexts in mind. When I referred to those who "moved away" from the DP" and then "slipped back" I was thinking of my experience in the '60s. Then I somehow got lazy and went on to speak of the earlier leadership (and in fact founders) of BNCPJ here in Bloomington. They never moved away from the DP, but (in another sense of "slipped away") slipped out of active particiapation after 2008.
You had difficulty understanding it because it was incoherent.
Carrol