Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Here is the truth of US political geography: a gigantic majority of
> leftists (such as PEN-pals) -- even more disproportionately than the
> majority of Americans -- live in one-party states, many of them
> concentrated in left-leaning urban areas like New York City, Chicago,
> and the Bay Area in states dominated by the Democratic Party like New
> York, California, and Illinois.
>
> So, for the majority of leftists, the presidential election is really
> a no-brainer -- vote against the pro-war candidates of the Democratic
> and Republican Parties, vote for Nader, Cobb, or any other candidate
> on the left whose program you support.
>
yoshie,
for one thing, i do not even see such a pragmatic recommendation coming
from roy. also, questions remain: what/who constitutes the majority of
leftists? is it a small group of marxists that roy and other leaders of
the left wish to appeal to and restrict their appeal/advice to? does it
include "free market liberals"? if the group is large enough (to be
significant) then even such "safe state" considerations may not apply.
--ravi
