I’m really not understanding this argument. Presumably center-left people won’t register green, so how could they claim this? Unless they are going to lie, which if you have to base what you do on the possibility that right-wingers might lie, you’ll never get anything done.
I’m just playing devil’s advocate here, though. I’m not attached to this idea in any way.
Well the democratic party is generally defined as center/center-left (dnf. In Europe) so, really, to combat the right, the left must show some unity.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the left has been completely incompetent in exploiting the right/ultra-right divide effectively in the last two years, which is a damn shame because it’s a sad parade on the other side.
Moral of the story, unity. Divide and conquer. The right is divided, they need to be crushed right now. Is what I would say if I was any sort of military commander, which I’m not.
You’re saying we need a Popular-Front strategy, everybody from Commies to love-me-I’m-a-liberals together in one movement? Can that really work?
I’m for Kang all the way!
Well, I don’t consider myself to be a liberal or progressive, but I have no problem working with finding common cause with them (or with OWS). I’ll even find common cause with libertarians on the few issues they agree with me.
But I don’t see how I’m supposed to find common cause with the Blue Dogs and “centrists” who dominate the Democratic Party. They are neoconservative lemon socialists, and I simply don’t agree with their foreign or economic policies. At least if they were technocrats, I would be willing to work with them, but they are ideologues who will put their agenda over sound policy any day of the week.
And they’ve made it clear that they are willing to throw any Democratic policy or bloc under the bus. MoveOn, ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, Medicare, Social Security, environmental regulations, the list is too long of people and policies they’ve been happy to push out of the coalition. I don’t see how I can work with them, because they don’t want to work with me.
As for Marxists or lefty-Anarchists, they’re not really a factor in today’s US politics, but I really disagree with both of these philosophies, so I don’t see any point in unifying with them.
As I said, I can show unity with progressives or liberals, but the Democratic Party leadership has become utterly repugnant and needs to be actively fought (in a political sense, not a violent sense).