On Fri, December 19, 2008 4:10 pm, Chris Gehlker wrote: > I certainly agree that the Dems have lost a lot of important issues. > I just never equated 'progressives' with 'democrats'.
I tend to boil things down to Dem/Rep, because that's what we're stuck with, and by and large votes do come down to party divisions... and more than votes, it's leadership - again, major Democratic leaders may have progressive leanings personally (and I do believe this), but they will take centrist positions to maintain their power. Republican leaders may have centrist leanings, but will take far right positions to maintain their power. In effect, we have a constant pull to the right. We also rarely see concession on the issues of importance from the Right - their positions are so black & white to them, that compromise is just not possible or useful. Again, this has a net effect of pulling everything to the right. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
