Oh, also: it's funny, how we talk about voting in the most right-wing of all the candidates, because that isn't what happened.
Kerry is further to the left of Dean, Edwards, Clark, and Lieberman. And the candidate that did the most to rally the progressives to alter the way the Democratic race took place, Howard Dean, was pretty much to the right of everyone else in the field but Lieberman.
Funny how stories build up.
And I forgot to mention that your only means for creating change is not electoral at all; you do have the ability to work with internet programs such as MoveOn.org and Dean's grassroots organization. Because the candidates are, for the first time ever, really listening to the voices of the people on the Net.
Don't think that Kerry made his comeback because people are sheep. He made his comeback because he learned from what Dean was doing: listening to the energized, angry base of voters who wanted Bush gone.
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Re: Afterthought
Date: 2004-03-05 16:21 (UTC)Kerry is further to the left of Dean, Edwards, Clark, and Lieberman. And the candidate that did the most to rally the progressives to alter the way the Democratic race took place, Howard Dean, was pretty much to the right of everyone else in the field but Lieberman.
Funny how stories build up.
And I forgot to mention that your only means for creating change is not electoral at all; you do have the ability to work with internet programs such as MoveOn.org and Dean's grassroots organization. Because the candidates are, for the first time ever, really listening to the voices of the people on the Net.
Don't think that Kerry made his comeback because people are sheep. He made his comeback because he learned from what Dean was doing: listening to the energized, angry base of voters who wanted Bush gone.