> On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Carrol Cox <cb...@ilstu.edu> wrote: > > Just a note to clear up some confusion. Marv writes: At the most basic level, > I would like to know why Carrol and Jan, who were active in the LRS which > strongly influenced the Jackson campaign, were unable despite their best > efforts to disabuse a single LRS member - not one member! - of their > “illusionary” and “idiotic” hopes of pushing the DP to the left? And, in > light of this, why continue to insistently sell an evidently failed strategy > then as a winning one today? > > ------- > > I must not have been clear. At the time we agreed with the LRS strategy, so > we didn't try to disabuse anyone of it. What we failed to do was attract > anyone to the LRS. There simply wasn't any discussion of politics among those > who joined us in the Jackson Campaign. I am predicting that the same thing > will happen in the Sanders campaign: no one in it will be recruited to any > left organization, but some leftists from those organizations will exhaust > themselves in the effort and quit.
Hard to say for certain what the outcome of the Sanders campaign will be, Carrol, although I expect most will support Clinton for fear of what Republican control of the presidency, judiciary, and Congress will mean for their rights and benefits. Some, as you say, will retreat from politics altogether. A few will join small organizations on the outside like the Greens and inside like the PDA. The tendency always is to say plus ca change… But this doesn’t mean there is some alternate political magic formula which would yield better results. > > Later on Marv's substantive points. > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
