If all the energy going into condemning Greens, Trots, and what-not was devoted to thinking how the moderate left could fashion a stable, governing, productive majority, it might just happen.
In the end, Gore and Jospin, despite huge advantages in money and media coverage relative to their left gadflies, could not persuade enough people to vote for them. The elections were theirs to lose. If voting for them is such a moral and practical imperative, if the case is so compelling, how come it doesn't pan out? The onus is on them and nobody else. They had the platform and they blew it. And to anyone who kvetches, YOU blew it. Nobody ever got votes by being a moral scold, whether it's Al G's boyz warning of the dangers of the GOP, or Jesse J. trying to sell his own unique claim to conscience. If you don't know that, you need to review politics 101. Look in the mirror. A neglected factor is that those who control the Dems et al. would rather retain control of a losing party than lose control of a winning party. mbs
