The ultra-left / ultra-progressives among us seem to believe that the protesting left of the web-blogs, the moveon.org’s, et al will combine to form a working majority capable of electing a president of the United States. Elementary mathematics says otherwise.
It has become a popular pastime for net based organizations and many blogs to attack anyone who dares vary a single degree from their respective ideologies. Friends, with slightly out of step views are castigated. Those who express left-of-center views that are not hard left are hammered. Friend flashes the “bird” at friend while the right-of-center crowd churns along pretty much in lock-step. The Right politely debates in public. The Left as individuals select their favorite personality and declare war on everyone else. Friendly fire erupts and the casualties become all Americans.
Is the far Left so committed to their cause that no level of compromise is acceptable? If true, it is a recipe for failure in 2008.
If, by chance or hard work, the über Left turns out 100% of its constituency for its preferred candidate in 2008, it cannot elect a president. It takes the red-hot Left, the hot Left, the lukewarm Left, many independents, and probably some Republicans to elect the next prez. It will take a “collation of the willingTM” to rid us of the menace that has put our country on the path to destruction called Iraq.
God help us if we get tangled in our purity underwear and, Ralph Nader-like, elect another George W. Bush look-alike in 2008.
The ultra-Left nor anyone else can defeat the laws of mathematics.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. Left of what, Amarillo? For all I know your über Left could be anything.
Compromise with what, on what?
Some people’s idea of compromise is to give away the store first and then start talking.
“tangled in our purity underwear”…heh.
How about just having congress respond to the will of the people? Is that too pure?
from my beliefs in 1980 ~ when I was a Goldwater Republican. The political parties have moved so far to the right that the end days are now upon us.
Come back to the middle and the ‘far left’ isn’t all that far away.
I can say left in a comment.
Left, left, left, left, left,……..
Ok, that’s stupid; so is this diary.
As a hard, uber, radical, yippie, pinko, tree hugging, long haired, dirty fucking pot smoking hippie, ….allow me to say, Welcome!
And yes….let us try to avoid electing Giuliani et al.
i’m glad to have different POVs here… we can’t possibly fix problems without being able to agree where to start and where we want to go… even when the processes are different
some of us can pull the sixshooters before asking questions… but i hope you are different and force us to look at things we don’t consider, because we think we’ve got it all covered
it’s the benefit of age… to want more, not less…
so write away… be who you are… we have some adjusting to do here to be able to live up to being “open”
but we are soooooo willing to try… we want to get there and we want to talk with you, wherever you are on the spectrum… and come away with something none of us expected
so really… welcome!