> Max Sawicky wrote: > > >And anyone who thinks they will advance in the U.S. power elite by enlisting in the Democratic Socialists of America, pro-war or not, is too dumb to be a concern to anyone. > > Max, > > They could always serve their "socialist in my romantic youth" time in DSA, > then have second thoughts and intellectually mature to the right. It's been done. > > Tom Walker True enough, but you lose valuable time selling newspapers and sitting through boring meetings when you could be networking and advancing up the corporate ladder. Plus you have less to explain away later. In the 1992 campaign, poor Bill Clinton was accused of being a Russian spy because he went to the USSR as a college student. To add insult to injury, he was probably a CIA stringer at the time. In my romantic senility I'm maturing to the left. mbs