I've been looking for signs of possible Democratic success and just realized I am one.
Today I proposed that the members of my fantasy baseball league each throw in five bucks and predict the makeup of the next Congress. Having done so, I suddenly understood that I wouldn't propose such a bet unless I considered the "worst case" outcome a minimally acceptable outcome. That is, even if the Demos only win the House by two or three seats, that won't spoil my pleasure in the bet.
So I'm confident enough to organize the pool. I am my own harbinger. And maybe I'll learn if our league has any Republicans in it. It's kind of a Berkeley bunch, with me as the token Democrat and your Greens and your small-a anarchists and your dog-park Marxists and a 12-stepper or two
At worst, a Libertarian, I think, though around here people only claim they're Libertarian if they're too lazy to recycle.
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Dog-park Marxist!?! That, sir, is a blood libel.
I don't have a Marxist bone in my body.
If anything, I am a an anarcho-liberal (to reach the goals of traditional liberalism through anarchosyndical organization.
Have either of you read Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia"? Was it not the anarchosyndicalists who were betrayed by the Marxists during the Spanish Civil War? I recall it gave me warm feelings about the anarchosyndicalists.
I haven't read the Daugherty link yet, but I expect he pretty much sums up my position: I don't bet when I suspect the game could be rigged.
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