[230] in libertarians
Re: Synar Defeat Analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Thu Sep 22 11:43:40 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:27:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Synar Defeat Analysis] as of Sep 22, 3:04
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), libertarians@MIT.EDU
Cc: libernet@dartmouth.edu
In your message [Synar Defeat Analysis]
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| GOA and Limits are both groups that have less than warm welcome
| with many Republicans. We should all be happy that our influence
| can be felt, even if it must be combined with others in single
| issue groups. Indeed, the fact that we can work successfully
| with others on such issues is a great thing to build upon. It tosses
| out convincingly the charge that we are "unknowns" or "kooks."
|
| Vernon
Read the article by Robert Bidinotto in the 12/86 issue of _The_Freeman_.
In it, he argues that ad hoc or single-issue groups can be an effective
menas of political activism, especially since they avoid the shortcomings
of both "orthodoxies" (groups which say more and more about everything
until they have excluded almost everyone) and "coalitions" (groups which
avoid taking positions on more and more issues, to avoid alienating members,
until they become a broad-based coalition that says nothing).
- Kevin
