"The" Left, when it comes into existence, will of course have to become involved in electoral politics; that is the only way numerous serious questions can be introduced into general public consciousness. This is obvious.
But under current conditions, as Marv Gandall has argued, "The Left" is merely a pointer to a huge miscellaneous collections of groups and individuals rather than any entity that can arrive at and implement a concrete decision on the nature of such involvement. And such a miscellaneous collection is, by definition, miscellaneous and it is meaningless to argue as to what "its" policy should be. When a coherent Left does emerge it will also become clear that such politicians as Elizabeth Warren et al are serious opponents of any significant move to the left. And under current conditions, there is nothing leftists can do that will positively affect government policy decisions. There are too few of us and we have no machinery by which to reach a decision which all or most of us will then join to implement. Discussions of what Congress or the President or The Court or the DP "should" do can be entertaining but merely as chit-chat. (Again, with the qualifier, "under current conditions.") Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
