Let’s make a deal with the segment of the Anybody But Bush movement that loathes John Kerry’s public policy positions but still urges those of us who live in so-called swing states to vote for him on Nov. 2. If those of us who have never completely understood the Left’s reflexive attraction to the Democratic Party vow to give the party’s repugnant nominee for president our vote this election season, will the lefty ABBers promise that Election 2004 will be the last time they endorse a Democratic nominee and pledge to begin working on Nov. 3 toward building a separate political party with the goal of eventually giving the Republicrats a run for their money?
I’m willing to vote for JFK II in four-and-a-half weeks if Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Norman Solomon and other notable lefty ABBers admit the unhealthiness of maintaining any form of a relationship with the Democratic Party—a political party that has done nothing in the past 35 years to earn their trust and has a long history of cracking down on the rights and freedom of leftist movements in the United States—and agree to put their energy behind building a real left-libertarian political party.