On 8/3/2011 9:59 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/02/1002524/-Why-I-am-not-disillusioned-with-Barack-Obama > > “When you are in a coalition and you’re comfortable. You know you are > not in a broad enough coalition.”—Bernice Reagon > > The fractious and divided American left should get used to the idea > that the non-revolutionary Left and the revolutionary Left should > really be on the same team, just playing different positions. The > non-revolutionary Left tends to get caught up in the day to day grind > of slow incremental reform and legislation. That needs to be done and > that’s their main job anyway.The revolutionary Left is supposed to > have the vision thing, generating and propagating the ideas and > strategies that sound crazy now, but will be considered commonplace > 5-10-20 years from now. The revolutionary Left is also supposed to be > experts on strategy when mass uprisings break out, which they do with > the unpredictable power of a Midwest tornado. If everybody does their > jobs with reasonable competence, the American Left grows stronger and > genuine reform becomes more possible.
This guy is a total idiot. The day after Obama was elected, he wrote an illusion-filled paean to Obushma: http://www.bobbosphere.org/2008/11/05/grant-park-usa/ We stayed til the end and heard his whole speech. He channeled Lincoln, King, FDR and doubtless some others that I have forgotten or didn’t recognize. Just a few years back I was coming out of the Oak Park IL Library where one of Obama’s aides was practically dragging people over to shake his hand. Obama looked awful lonely standing there so I went over and exchanged a few words and shook his hand. Now he is president of the United States. It doesn’t mean that racism is dead in this country, but I think its pulse is growing weaker. I checked out the vote totals of my old hometown of Washington D.C. —93% for Obama. My childhood-through-college home of Maryland was 60%, my present town of Oak Park was 82% and my adopted state of Illinois was 61%. Clearly I have lived in some really great places. Now it’s on to tap all of that volunteer enthusiasm and create the greatest social movement for justice this country has ever seen. Yes we can. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
