[lbo-talk] 3'd party debates

[Gar Lipow]

In the 43rd district in Seattle was - a socialist made the run-off against
Frank Chopp and he actually chose to debate her, for which I  will gve the
bastard some credit.
The story below unsurprisingly in the tank for Chopp. Just to let you know,
Chopp is NOT that liberal even by the standards of the WA state Demos. Many
in the state Lege are to his left. For not most part he does not have a
world viw at all. He is a master of big ticket retail politics. Doing one
favor at a time for powerful people. He never comes close to breaking any
laws, but I see no signs of political principles, not even political
principles I disagree with.  I think since he is in a liberal district and
advances policy well to the right of most people in his districts, debating
a socialist is a cheap bone to throw the liberal and lefty voters.

Incidentally, I saw Kshama Sawant speak at Evergreen yesterday. She drew a
large audience that included local liberals and left Demcorats. I'm getting
the impression that among young people to the left the crazy right
"socialist" is no longer the scary word it used to be. It  may be
terrifying to loder people and and third of the population who is deeply
reactionary, but among the rest people are perfectly willing to listen to
socialists, without the term  arousing special suspicions or  shutting down
their ability to hear.  Impressin. Dunno if the data backs this..

http://seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019265538_left_v_left_frank_chopp_debate.html

The story

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Russia Today and Al Jazeera to broadcast 3'd party debates
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