The Party for Socialism and Liberation ran a presidential candidate for the first time in 2008, Gloria La Riva. She appeared on the ballot in states containing 26.4% of the presidential vote. In those states, she polled .02% of the total presidential vote.
And on the Left Coast, California’s Peace and Freedom Party passed on ‘federal felon de jour’ and nominated Nader in a rare bit of sanity! May be they will keep it up in 12 and 16!
Donald Raymond Lake, Used Abused and Not Amused…..
Phil Sawyer adds:
Yes, Don, our Party did the correct thing this time around (all the other candidates were good too, though) and nominated Ralph Nader – like it should have done in 2004.
Politics is struggle, as you well know. There is never any guarantee that any party will do the correct thing and it takes serious effort, study, and work by all of us to make sure that the our collective decisions will be on target. I do hope that you will stay in the Party and run for County and State Central Committee in 2010.
All the other tickets have been HORRIBLE! This is the first time ever that I [in a state where the &@**$%# Dems win by over a Mil every four years] have voted for a PFP slate.
Hopefully [in light of the TERRIBLE numbers of the Greens, nationally and on the West Coast] the PFP will continue to lose the LP style lunacy of the ideological past.
How ever I do congratulate the LP, GP, and [of course] PFP in selecting a national ‘name’ in stead of a home grown no name loyalist [never known and soon forgotten] as in years past!
Even the participants of this [most excellent] web log are hard pressed to name former candidates out side of the ‘Big Two’ and their own little niche! The individual actions of Robert Barr and Cynthia McKinney are suspect, the general trend is not!
So, Socialist Dudes, can you explain to me what the philosophical differences are between a modern Democrat (and a lot of modern Republicans) and a Socialist? I am not being rhetorical–I really want to know what you see is the difference.
First of all, what do you mean by “Socialist”? A person who belongs to a political party that utilizes that name – or what?
Yosemite1967 Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I thought that the Socialist and Communist parties already had their candidates elected president in at least the last three elections. They had to be happy with (1) how Clinton sold out our national security to Communist China, (2) how Bush shredded the Constitution every chance he got, and (3) how the president elect is planning on shredding the constitution at an accelerated pace.
Phil Sawyer Says:
December 24th, 2008 at 4:15 am
The above statement is full of non sequiturs and therefore is not logical.
Phil Sawyer adds:
Furthermore, based upon the above exchange in a previous post, why should we think that you are not being rhetorical?
Thinking that I know the answer to my own question doesn’t mean that I don’t want to know what you think. I really am curious to know why you guys aren’t just Democrats, when the Democrats are, in my opinion, essentially the same. What do you see as the difference between you and the Democrats?