[ARCADIA]

"If the Liberals were so far off in loony land..."

s/b

"If the Liberals were not so far off in loony land..."

[joef]

My feeling is that the democrats are generally going in one of two directions: towards the right (like Lieberman or Clinton did, trying to be centrists), or so far left they've become parodies of themselves, ala Jesse Jackson.

Kucinich is a stand up guy by all acounts, and he's got a solid progressive agenda...balanced budgets, improving the social saftey net, and protecting American workers. Too bad the corporations that donate the majority of money into political races won't touch him. He's got ideas that could (and should) by campaign issues (like NAFTA), but no one else will even touch them.

[joef]

Completely forgot the point about unionizing vs. a national political movement.

For starters, unions are national political movements, or can be. And I doubt that any national movement will work fast enough to save some of the jobs of people here. Altho I agree that there does need to be a national discussion on this, and preferably some action taken soon.