Michael Smith > > the Reagan cult of the > > personality which is part of the Tea Party's and right wing's > > ideological pillars today.
Worrying about the Teabaggers has always seemed as silly to me as worrying about Flat-Earthers, but it seems especially silly now in the Occupy era. Don't we have much more important things to think about? -------- Indeed. And this _frivolity_ of focus on the "far right" has cluttered left politics for over half a century. Left politics is a politics of mass action, not a politics of the seminar or the Congressional Committee. And mass movements grow by accretion -- that is, from a left political perspective we are at a given time only interested in those we _can_ reach and incorporate into militancy. We have no reason to fuss over Reagan or the Tea Party. That is an a-political perspective, the perspective of the electoral candidate or the detached observer. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
