tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post7803530323583232513..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Are we a nation of two year-olds?Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-59307459358081501652011-11-19T00:05:11.269-06:002011-11-19T00:05:11.269-06:00On Rachel Maddow's show Thursday night, she fr...On Rachel Maddow's show Thursday night, she framed her coverage of the OWS events in terms of "two tracks": one being the protests, the other being the House voting down Obama's high speed rail plan. She wondered out loud if these two tracks would ever come together, then brought in Melissa Harris-Perry. They talked around the main issue so much that I wondered if Rachel even realized she had brought it up. <br /><br />It's absolutely important that the people in power realize that people are pissed off, and the base of anger is so broad that it cannot be dismissed. But we are naive if we think these protests are going to force Congress to do anything. The Republican Party controls the Doomsday switch on all legislation, and they cannot and will not listen. They would collectively call their own grandmothers slut crack-whores if they went downtown to protest. <br /><br />There is an attitude that the movement is somehow pure and righteous because no politicians have come around to exploit it for their own "immoral purposes" -- heinous acts like getting into office and voting on things the movement cares about. 'Round about September 2012, everyone's going to realize that this is a pretty stupid attitude. By then, of course, it will be too late to harness the momentum of OWS and find a slate of candidates who can run across the country to move toward taking back the House and shoring up the Senate. <br /><br />Are there any Progressives out there who want to WIN, or is this just primal scream camping therapy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-23154108580032966442011-11-17T12:25:02.616-06:002011-11-17T12:25:02.616-06:00You hit it with the comment about the sense of pri...You hit it with the comment about the sense of privilege on the part of some of the protesters. I don't question their sincerity, but I do question their naivete. That they think they should get change just because they ask for change is naive.<br /><br />Rosa Parks, MLK and Gandhi didn't get change because they asked for it. They *made* the system change.Chris Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18139817527808942227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-67152821890284123892011-11-17T08:51:48.815-06:002011-11-17T08:51:48.815-06:00ebogan
Sometimes a personal journey both precedes...ebogan<br /><br />Sometimes a personal journey both precedes and informs our politics. Taibbi flirts with that and then misses the mark in letting these young people off the hook for their need to go there if they're going to affect any real change.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-7383187575050324402011-11-17T08:38:43.676-06:002011-11-17T08:38:43.676-06:00(h/t Ebony & Ivory Politics) "The legacy ...(h/t Ebony & Ivory Politics) "The legacy of OWS can be a simple, “they yelled and sat in a park for a while,” or it will be the 99% getting out to vote. Going door-to-door and working for real change."<br /><br />IMO the above is far more meaningful than any of Taibbi's malinfomed missives.<br /><br />ebogan63.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com