Let's recall that Alinsky organizing is terminally small-bore and localist. The idea of a national movement aimed at some big change in political economy is foreign to it. Though it looks good on the resumé!
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Julio: > >> He [Obama] does > >> not trust in, believe in, or want popular involvement in politics. > > Doug: > > He comes from the school of thought that Adolph Reed once characterized > as believing that if you just got all the smart people together on the > Vineyard, they could solve everything.< > > whatever happened to Saul Alinsky and BHO's old job of "community > organizer" (that Rudi the Duce made so much fun of at the GOP > convention)? Yeah, I know: it was mostly -- or almost entirely -- an > illusion. But you gotta ask those rhetorical questions! > > BTW, in contrast, the GOP doesn't reject popular involvement in > politics, as long as its moneyed. > -- > Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the > painful job of thinking." - John Kenneth Galbraith > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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