On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> Coates and Gary Younge gave me a hard time for not understanding >> how Obama had mobilized the youth of color. I argued that that >> didn't amount to a hill of beans - the "mobilization" was little more than a >> fan club, and Obama was just another DLC type, not much different in >> substance >> from Hillary Clinton. But to them, I was just a cranky old white intellectual >> elitist and such. I wish we could reconvene so I could say "I told you so." > > It seems to me that *they told you so*. > > It seems to me that they told you -- or suggested or implied to you -- > that at the time the left had to bet, not on pseudo-radicals waging > the finger and sitting on the margins of the electoral process, but > precisely on those who got involved and vested in support of Obama > (including the author of this op-ed in the NY Times), those masses of > young people, some doing very creative forms of political work.
Julio, that's ridiculous. There was no mobilization. It was empty from the first. A bunch of people, including some who should have known better (like Younge), were drunk on Obamamania in the summer of 2008. The "psuedo-radical" bit is insulting, on top of the absurdity of this - it was obvious to me at that time that this would all end badly, and I was right. How is this "pseudo-radical"? The p-r position was that the Obama campaign meant something good. It was a snare, a delusion, a waste. The left is on the ropes and the right is setting the agenda. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
