Re: [Pen-l] how about a floor under gas prices?

["Gar Lipow" <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Our problems are political not ecological or economic, since any useful
> approach to ecology or the economy depends on far-reaching shifts in
> political power. And those shifts are simply not going to be achieved
> within the "immediate present" (the next four years or so). Policy
> proposals from leftists are, therefore, to be judged from a future
> perspective: Supposing a rise of leftist power possible sometime after
> (say) 2012, what can be done or thought now to contribute to that rise.
> Fiddle-faddle about what the next Administration/Congress should do is
> just that, fiddle-faddle.
>

Bullshit - "if your goal was really X  you would do Y" is a powerful
form of criticism of existing power structures with a long historical
record.  I'll bet you could think of an occasion or two when old
whiskers himself did this.
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