Speaking of political organizations --
a party can be a symbol and still command support:
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=22053
Read about Haiti's poor folks' twenty-year love affair with Aristide and "the flood."
You gotta be from among 'em -- a "populist", for lack of a better word -- to earn loyalty. Be of 'em not just for 'em -- otherwise progressive talk is like smoking crack.
