Yup!
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:07:05PM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
> 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
>
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Michael Perelman
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