Doug Henwood wrote:
> Nader's neither a saint nor a revolutionary, but if you think this,
> you've got a very weird set of priorities. He's more deserving of
> attack than Bill Clinton, the CEO of the world bourgeoisie? Than Tony
> Blair, Bill's loyal manservant? Than Bill Gates, tarnished populist
> icon of the New Economy? Than... I could go on, but you get the point.
>
> Further proof of the wisdom of Michael Kinsley's observation that the
> right is always looking for converts, and the left, for heretics.
It is exactly Nader that you yourself on this list and your own list are
most busy deconstructing. The reasons are self-evident: you can make no
difference to Blair's fate, or the fate of Bore/Gush or Gates. You cannot
even influence Nader who is out of your reach. But what you can do, and
really do, is to use the moment to teach the kids he's visiting campuses to
win over, why Nader is not and cannot be the political apotheosis of Seatlle
etc. And I have no doubt that you WILL do this and you are already on
Nader's case. Heretics? No-one will be more punctiliously inquisitorial than
you, I am sure, and the more successful Nader is the more vengeful you will
be .
Mark Jones
http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
