Michael P. wrote:
>Bill Clinton -- or at least his administration -- is well to the right
>of the policies of the Nixon administration, even though I suspect that
>Clinton personally is well to the left in the Democratic Party.
>
>The fault lies with us. Nixon did the positive things that he did
>because there was a spirit of militancy at the time. I suspect that if
>people were organized and militant -- such as we saw in Seattle,
>Washington, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles -- even a right-wing Supreme
>Court would be reluctant to take extremely unpopular actions.
The fault lies with the lack of political militancy on the left. A vote for
Nader (or maybe McReynolds) is a vote for raising the level of militancy,
which would pressure _either_ Gush _or_ Bore. A vote for Gore would not be
a vote for increased militancy.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
