On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > raghu wrote: > >> I have a big enough ego to believe that they are just not smart enough. > > Too bad your intelligence is not as large as your ego, you dreary troll.
Ok fair enough. A better answer to Doug's question is that there are collective action problems among the elite as well. As in the trader on Wall St has no individual reason to give up his bonus this year unless everyone else makes a similar sacrifice for the sake of their own long-term self-interest. I confess to taking a more extreme position than I am comfortable with on this list partly to compensate for what I see as very counter-productive cynicism. Any way you look at it, Obama as President is a historic progressive opportunity. It is not going to get better than this in the next election. We have to do everything we can to force him in a progressive direction. And when he leans the right way, we need to put our collective weights behind him and force him to keep moving in the right direction. And adopting a defeatist attitude is simply not helpful. -raghu. -- Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
