Progressives fight the right, including at the ballot box...

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 21:34

October 20, 2010
by Norman Solomon

Primaries offer opportunities. General elections bring imperatives — to defeat right-wing forces — and that’s certainly true this time around.

The last two years of undue efforts to accommodate Republican leaders have ended up boosting — not countering — their momentum. My recent article Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine makes a case that giving ground to the right wing is a formula for disaster.

Now, many progressives are working feverishly to limit the looming disaster. That means pulling together.

With his recent essay ‘The Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson’ Myth , journalist Robert Parry assesses the consequences of failure to unite against Republicans when the November chips are down.

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