Marv Gandall wrote:
Moore is trying to encourage opposition to administration policy retreats,
using the American political vernacular which can sound cloying to
sophisticated left-wingers. Should he instead be encouraging his
disaffected
but still loyal Democratic party admirers to forego putting any pressure,
even polite pressure, on the administration because it is just a waste of
time?
I don't begrudge Democratic Party liberals like Michael Moore putting
pressure on Obama from the left. I just get irked with him posturing as
being "against capitalism". He is against capitalism like Ralph Nader
is, seeking a return to some nostalgic dream of his youth (dad still
working in Flint; Connecticut small town values). At least Nader had the
guts to run against the Democrats and put up with all its creeps from
Eric Alterman to Todd Gitlin.
I can anticipate the answer: Moore should be instead calling on them to
break with the Democrats and form a third party. That would be wonderful,
but no third party of any consequence has ever emerged without dissidents
first making strenuous efforts to reform their existing one, and we are not
there yet.
We are not where yet? Dissidents have been making "strenuous efforts"
for as long as they have in the British Labour Party. We are dealing
with an advanced case of political senility. Those who still stick with
the Democrats after the Carter, Clinton and now Obama presidencies are
in a state of denial--like a battered wife who says her husband is still
a good guy.
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