I agree with you that it's not worth doing if you don't have a base. But if the "Left" is involved with organizing the base, the Left will insist a priori on not getting involved in Democratic Party politics, because that's a non-negotiable ideological dogma for the Left. That's what makes the Left the Left: the belief that you have to preserve yourself at all costs from taint of association with the Democratic Party.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Naiman wrote: >> OK, how about if we threaten to primary [Senator Richard] Durbin [i.e., to >> oppose him in a primary] election]? Could we get anyone on >> the left to support that? > > Is there enough of a grass-roots movement to do such a thing? I doubt > it. Without such a movement, endorsing the "primarying" of someone is > silly. The point, therefore, is to build such a movement. Then, the > movement should be consulted on whether or not to get involved with DP > primaries or not. > > The Tea Party started with the grass roots (of petty-bourgeois types, > resentful white males, crazy Texas millionaires, etc.) They _didn't_ > start by running Lar Daley or whoever against incumbent politicians in > primaries. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
