Re: Dennis Kucinich
On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I’d be surprised if any US leftist other than Chuck0-like anarchists (abstention), Solidarity and the ISO (a third party), and incorrigible pacifists (Dennis Kucinich), who together constitute a small minority of US leftists, would campaign for anyone other than a Master-Class-approved Democratic Party candidate and try to change the parameters of “electability” (the seal of Master Class approval, signified by direct and indirect campaign donations, corporate media coverage, etc.).
This is ludicrous. The left, whatever that is exactly, in the U.S. is
small and weak. It has no chance of electing a president, or even of
significantly influencing a presidential campaign. It’s a waste of
time to think otherwise, though that didn’t stop the Nader campaign.
The left, whatever that is, would be better off spending time at
lower levels of politics - city, state, even the House of
Representatives, but the presidency is a lost cause.
Doug