The Third Way is "concerned" about all this populist talk

[socialist_n_TN]

39. This is interesting to me because I've been advocating.......

for left populist campaigns for Democrats in Tennessee for 3 or 4 years now, so this should be a test case to see how well it works in a centerish type of state. In Tennessee or Kansas, IMO, it would make even more sense because you have less to lose. You're ALREADY marked down for defeat, so you might as well try something different. But this is Florida which, in spite of it's local idiocy at times, trends more left than other southern states.

We'll see how it goes. Oh yeah, watch the voter suppression and election stealing brigades of the RW. If Crist looks like he going to be getting a lot of traction out of the left populist rhetoric, they'll get even MORE desperate to discredit that message and pull out all the stops legal and illegal.

Not that I think any of this will really work. I am a revolutionary socialist after all. You can't vote in a massive systemic change in a system that's hard wired to do what it's doing. The best you can do is nibble around the edges with electoral politics. But left reformism is a step in the consciousness raising that's needed to be able to bring about the necessary transformation.