One of Carl's refrains is to apply both street heat and a clever forway into the electoral arena supposedly to push a progressive agenda.

Last time around this ended up demobilizing the mass action component and all of the eggs ended up in the Kerry electoral campaign. Sssh. Only Carl and a "few of his friends" know how this clever strategy of dual tactics works.

It was so clever that the antiwar movement in Chicago has yet to recover from its electoral malaise. But maybe that was the plan all along?