Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: voting for Nader

[Doug Henwood]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I would submit that the space provided by Clinton was greater
>than Bush elder/Dole would have provided.
>
>Would progressive movements have been better off today if we had just had
>8 years of Bush/Dole?

You may remember that in 1992 the big bourgeoisie seemed seriously 
worried about a legitimation crisis. The press was full of tales of 
the angry voter; middle managers were terrified by downsizing, and 
thinking all sorts of unsound thoughts; and the two-party system, a 
masterful instrument of elite rule, was flying apart. That's why the 
b.b. seemed to favor Clinton. Eight years later, the masses are 
mostly pacified. A fly in the ointment, though, is that Nader's 
threatening the party duopoly, prompting all kinds of hysterical 
lectures from Eric Alterman and the New York Times editorial board.

Doug