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I’d like a pair of hindsight glasses so I can look back on today (from today) with 20/20 vision. Lacking such clear retroactive confirmation, I can only hope that we are, in fact, just over a year away from an America I thought we were in until January 19, 2001. Todd Gitlin
Nader’s Dead End
One overpowering cause unites [the netroots]– overturning the Bush bulldozer and the conservative cause that was powered up and ready for him even before he arrived on the scene. For all their disagreements, the Democrats’ netroots can agree that the precondition for progress on any of their issues — a less belligerent foreign policy, climate change, economic equality — is the definitive and enduring defeat of the Republicans. They may disagree on trade, foreign policy and other issues, but they have pitched a big tent.
The netroots want their movement to function within the party — a machine committed to winning and governing. And this is why Nader no longer matters. In the post-Bush setting, Nader’s Greens are dead-enders. MoveOn.org counts 3.25 million members, a larger number than the Nader voters of 2000. MoveOn strategizes with Beltway politicians; Nader ships out on the Nation’s summer fundraising cruise later this month.
To vote for Nader now means to agree with him that there’s no real difference between the Republicans and the Democrats — a proposition as absurd as attributing 9/11 to Saddam Hussein.
As an earlier Democratic majority flamed out in napalm, so has the Republican revolution flamed out in the Iraqi desert. Now the Democrats, whatever their travails, are offering three or four candidates who specialize in putting up big tents. In their varying ways, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Bill Richardson can not only make majoritarian arguments, but they each look and sound like leaders suitable for a party that numbers tens of millions of people.
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Support Barack Obama
Yes, but he was writing an opinion piece in the LA Times… essentially the standard news propaganda of the PDRC (People Democratic Republic of California).
I’m not so sure that Team Hillary, Barack, and Company will go over so well in the churches of Texas and Ohio. Afterall, MoveOn.org has 3.25 million members, but how many tune in every Sunday for their weekly dose of god-talk? If we couldn’t elect a white liberal from Massachusetts, why will we elect a black one from Illinois?
So there are my two cents. I’ll go back to building by fallout shelter now…