Re: David Ehrenstein on Obama
On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Dennis Kucinich will be on the ballot in the DP caucuses and primaries, but most “anti-war” DP voters won’t vote for him. I conclude that they don’t have the courage of their convictions.
You make it sound like a moral failing, or some sort of other
personal defect. Most people sympathetic with Kucinich’s politics
think he doesn’t have a prayer - not merely of winning, but even
scoring above 5%. Yes, that’s self-fulfilling, but unlike a lot of
leftists, many voters don’t think of the ballot as a place to make a
statement, but as a way of supporting someone with a chance to win.
Until you can change that perception, which means changing reality to
at least some degree, what you see as individual moral failings will
keep repeating themselves.
Doug