[lbo-talk] structural racism/sexism

[shag carpet bomb]

At 04:04 PM 1/11/2012, Marv Gandall wrote:
>I expect that if Paul were to run as an independent, which I doubt, he'd 
>have the same early attraction to liberal Democrats as did Nader, but they 
>they would subsequently draw back when they realized, as in Nader's case, 
>that he was unelectable. Of course, Nader had a much more compatible 
>liberal program than Paul, and it was only panic that he would spoil 
>Gore's chances of defeating Bush that Democrats turned so strongly against 
>him. In Paul's case, liberals might conclude he would be a safe protest 
>vote in that he would take away more votes from Romney than from Obama, 
>and so would encourage his candidacy with who knows what result. Robert 
>Naiman who posts here and on the Pen-L list is already in that camp.

in my circles, there are lots of people who are simply crowding the polls 
as a protest vote, as a way to let the democrats know what they think about 
their bullshit position on war and wall st. some folks here in VA are 
actually willing to sign a loyalty to the republican party pledge (lying, 
natch) just to fuck with the primaries. what that translates into in 
numbers, no clue.

as for the libertarian "mind", anecdotally, they tend to be people who see 
themselves as independents, pox on both your houses kind of folks who don't 
look terribly closely at the whole platform, at least in my circles: web 
developers, graphic designers, software product developers, marketing.

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