[Peace-discuss] Another interesting article that speaks to the illusion that so-called liberal/progressive democrats actually turn out to be such.

[Ricky Baldwin]

What do you suggest?

 Ricky 


"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin




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From: LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at ADVANCENET.NET>
To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; sf-core at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:41:29 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Another interesting article that speaks to the illusion that so-called liberal/progressive democrats actually turn out to be such.

 
For those liberal, reform-minded, hopeful progressives who
are banking their hopes on Obama doing the right thing  by them and
actually representing the ordinary work-a-day world man-in-the-street, the
interests of common good as seen by  the everyday person, or change in any
really significant and fundamental way in which society is structured or works,
I think that they really need to take a clear look at history and accept the
facts of the countries historical past.   Experience should have
taught them, but evidently it did not, that deluding one’s self into
believing that things are going to change if they only complain LOUD
ENOUGH, if they only petition Obama ENOUGH, if they threaten
him that they will hold him accountable come the next election,
and if they work hard enough to move the center more to the left.
 
Given this, I respectfully
submit the following for your edification:
 
t r u t h o u t | 11.20
 
Norman Solomon | A Media Parable for "the
Center"
http://www.truthout.org/112008A
Norman Solomon, Truthout: "It's been 16 years since
a Democrat moved into the White House. Now, the fog of memory and the spin of
media are teaming up to explain that Barack Obama must hew to 'the center' if
he knows what's good for his presidency. 'Many political observers,' The San
Francisco Chronicle reported days ago, say that Obama 'must tack toward the
political mainstream to avoid miscalculations made by President Bill Clinton,
who veered left and fired up the 1994 Republican backlash.' This storyline
provides a kind of political morality play: The new president tried to govern
from the left, and Democrats lost control of Congress just two years later.
But, if facts matter, the narrative is a real head-scratcher."


      
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