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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (9991)	9/30/2003 8:25:11 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793717

The Aggressive Progressives claim Dean and Nader as their own: politicalstrategy.org We at Politicalstrategy.us are a group of concerned citizens outraged by recent events that have threatened our rights as U.S. Citizens: The theft of the presidency, the stripping of our rights to privacy and the pandering of the right wing to the wealthiest 1% of Americans at the expense of the other 99%. PS.us was created to unify and strengthen the progressive community, (i.e. the majority of the American population) to encourage an aggressive defense and assault on all things that continue to threaten our freedom and sensibility, and to ensure that progressives have a powerful, consistent and clear message that rivals the propaganda machine of the conservative establishment. Indeed, the conservative leadership in this nation is something to behold. They and their minions of intolerance, greed, ignorance and bigotry speak with one voice. Tom Delay, Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, Dubya, Ari Fleischer, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Novak, Ann Coulter, blah, blah, blah. The beast goes on seemingly forever. They speak as one. the Bush administration issues its talking points and the Limbaugh-Scaife-Moonie-Murdoch Media Machine goes to work. They stand behind one another with a shocking loyalty to the message. Of course they don't all agree completely with all the slop that is set in front of them, but they do realize something that the progressive community in this nation seems to miss: that in order to successfully promote a shared ideology the group must target the big picture, sacrificing less important things to the cause. They know that whatever their candidate can do with their united support is a million times better for them than what the opponent will be able to do if they do not remain united. This is precisely the reason why Bush is in the White House. The Progressive community in the U.S. wants it all and they are unwilling to sacrifice the tree for the forest. Maybe Gore wouldn't have eliminated the death penalty or done away with corporate interests. The point is that he was our only hope. Congratulations to Nader and his 2.5% of the vote. He wanted to send a message to the politicians and he certainly did. Message: "You republicans will have a much easier time placing your enviro-destructive, rich-pandering, women-dominating, minority-oppressing candidates into positions of leadership as long as I continue to run for office. Congratulations." Now some here agree with most of what Mr. Nader stands for and that's fine. However, from a strategy viewpoint, nuances in ideology are not the issue. The question for progressives should not be, "Does Gore lean more to the left or does Nader". IT DOES NOT MATTER. Gore was the ONLY candidate from the left that had a chance of landing in the White House. In addition, some people will argue that the blame should not be put on Nader and that Gore ran a less than spectacular campaign and even so received more votes both nationwide and in Florida, etc., etc. and again, ALL THAT DOES NOT MATTER. These are merely the results of a fouled-up, non-unified, confused political strategy enacted by those to the left of center. Add to that the post-election legal fiasco along with the criminal efforts of right-wing operatives and the result is a poser in the White House, an illegitimate felon serving as a figurehead for his fascist puppetmasters. Follow this with a wimpy disposition on the side of the Democrats, giving in to the republicans without outrage, without recourse, knowing fully well that the republicans were ready to launch a full-scale attack on the Democrats if Gore had won the electoral college and lost the popular vote. The point is: that this entire usurpation of all that is American could have been overridden had the left developed a unified strategy, one that put our only hope in office (GORE). Only then could we have begun work to shift some priorities toward the left. Now we have Bush, the toxic Texan with the bite-me foreign policy, building up nukes, trashing treaties, sleeping with corporate polluters and destroying this country's social infrastructure. This is indeed the last straw. Ideology vs Practicality We must stop insisting that every detail of our ideology dominate our supported platform and focus on PRACTICALITY. The winner is the one that controls the middle and you cannot do that with a far-left agenda. That is the only way that the progressive agenda can overcome the blight of the conservative agenda and restore our nation's sense of leadership, compassion and sensibility. Indeed, if those to the left of center banded together to support their mainstream (Yes. Mainstream!) candidate, then that candidate would not have to push so far to the right in order to capture the moderate conservatives and would then be able to pursue a genuine progressive agenda. Politicalstrategy.us exists to stress the practical strategies needed to win in the current political environment and to use those strategies to promote the progressive ideology.