Yoshie wrote, "The problem is that there is no organized Left to speak of in the USA, so even when Americans actually agree with leftists on economics and foreign policy, leftists aren't making any political headway and not in a position to do so any time soon."
Yes, but this is partly a matter of the Leftist predisposition to getting caught up in matters that really can't be resolved...or, if resolvable, wouldn't mean anything in terms of a possible arena of work. Case in point...as I repeatedly have raised...is the absolute crisis in the system represented by the serial failure of the American system to recognize: areas of environmental risk, global warming, the heightened risk of hurricanes, the crisis posed by Katrina in the New Orleans area, the flooding of much of the city, the creation of tremendous human loss, etc. This was a problem for which the Democrats had no answer...for which the middle class leadership of the black community had no answer.... And the Left, such as it is, was doing what? ML
