> [Carrol] your remonstrations, politically pointless although
> disguised as protests against pointlessness, are driving people away
> from the list.
Hmm. So is this a good thing or a bad thing? Depends on who these poor 'driven away' folks are. An image of the Gadarene swine pops into mind. Over the cliff with 'em, say I.
'Remonstration' is a fine word, recalling the golden age of political polemic, to wit the English Commonwealth.
Carrol's own 'remonstration', which evoked all these vapors, contained the following line:
> the remedy is just going ahead and building a
> left that can 'survive' and flourish even though it has a bad
> reputation.
Pure gold, that.
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