Paul Zarembka wrote: >>> The encouraging thing about the Nader/Camejo campaign is that >>> it is indeed creating a base of lots of people who are not >>> sucked into 'lesser-of-evil' politics. This is itself >>> progressive.
Doug: >> Well, it's looking to be 1/5 as large as it was four years ago. >> What's progressive about a shrinking base? Ralph: >Well, could it be that "progressive" in this case is to be a pole for >those who don't cop to shrinking horizons? Hmm... The "pole theory." So how many poles you have guys running down there? In Canada, we usually get many progressive poles with less than 1%... Monarchists... some Marxist/Leninists... the Rhino Party (double pole, I suppose, so extra progressive)... Family Christian poles of progression, too... The horizons do not seem to be shrinking. Ken.
