Re: [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise]
On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
I do agree that leftists can achieve nothing, even more minor reforms, by working in or with the DP. If
minor reforms are to be gained through the DP, those reforms will be gained without any participation of leftists, who are too few to effect
either general or primary elections.
Depends on what you mean by leftists. If you mean people who can
parse Theories of Surplus Value, there ain’t too many of them. If you
mean people with something like social democratic and antiwar
politics, then you’re probably talking about 10-15% of the U.S. pop.
That number most certainly is large enough to affect primary
elections, given their low turnout.
Doug