Nathan Newman wrote:
>Which is why the struggle will have to be in the streets and at the ballot
>box and in the workplaces across the country and in alliances around the
>world.
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>As far as I'm concerned, this is an incredibly great result, with the
>legitimacy of the Right shredded and our folks mobilized with the taste of
>bile in their mouths.
-I hope you're right. I suspect what we'll see instead, over the -coming weeks, are calls for national unity, the pragmatic bipartisan -tackling of the tasks at hand, an end to divisiveness, celebrations -of how the system really works despite its messiness, etc. etc. Bet -you the Dems and all their satellite groups will be active partners -in this endeavor. I hope you're right and I'm wrong though.
There will be both things happening at once and Bush will get a little honeymoon glow inevitably, but it will be an illusory one with a trapdoor without a safety net. Folks take public rhetoric too seriously as if our folks are so unsophisticated that they hear a bit of nice-nice talk in DC and go to sleep. The issue is not what is said inside the Beltway but what organizing is being done outside. Bush can be given plenty of rope to hang himself as long as folks are organizing to yank it hard when the time comes to do so.
It all comes down to the basics- organize, organize, organize. We now have an ideological terrain to rally and organize progressive forces; the only question is doing the hard work to make it all happen.
-- Nathan Newman