November 3 Theses

This modern-day Martin Luther is on to something.



I think we'll know once the DNC selects their new leader if the Democratic Party is something to which progressives can hitch their wagon, or if we have to go elsewhere. If it's someone like Tom Vilsack, who will fight to continue to allow a mostly white, rural state to decide the Democratic nominee via the Iowa caucuses, or one of the Clintonistas, we'll know. If it's someone like Howard Dean, then we have a shot at real change.



I'm hesitant to say the Green Party is the answer, because of their association with Nader in 2000 and their nebulously impractical, utopian platform. There has to be something between unimplementable idealism and the kind of sellout B.S. we've seen from the Democrats. If we have to start from scratch, so be it.