Doug Henwood wrote: > The Dems make no sense in the most narrow partisan sense.
It seems to me, that the left in the U.S. is not in a bad spot now. To clarify: the left is extremely weak organizationally and politically. Obama is really a reflection of that. Fortunately, the sentiment at the grassroots level is plenty. So far, it has an almost amorphous expression. I sense it among my students, neighbors, relatives, friends. That's for the time being, for good or ill. My sense is that this incoherent or decoupled reality, this large contradiction between the intensity of mass sentiment and its political vehicles, is ripe for a political crisis -- of the good type. And the crisis is timed to happen during the Obama years, which is not the worse setting, if you ask me. So, unless we botch it, we have a good chance to help this sentiment develop its own higher expressions -- spiritually, organizationally, and politically. At this point, as far as I'm concerned, Krugman strikes the right tone. He keeps criticizing Obama's choices and plans from the left in fairly technical, well argued, non ideological terms. This is connecting with lots of people. There's something to learn here. Louis Proyect wrote: > It only makes sense in class terms. The Democratic Party is the soft cop > and the Republicans are the hard cop. We don't need no stinkin' badges... Blah, blah. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
