An Ode To Douglass, Not Doug

[Brad De Long]

>If you ever want a good union staff job, you have to understand that 
>"power concedes nothing without a demand" means "Vote for Gore," 
>that protecting Starbucks windows from breakage by rude youth is a 
>feminist imperative, and that no union top should ever appear on a 
>speakers' platform with "avowed Communists."
>
>Doug

It *does* depend on whether politics is supposed to be a place for 
self-expression or an attempt to make the world a little bit better, 
doesn't it?  Breaking Starbucks windows, not voting for the leftmost 
of the candidates who might win, and making political alliances with 
those who prefer Fidel Castro's brand of "democracy" to ours--these 
are all ways to move the world a little bit further to the right.

But they may make the expressive actors feel better inside, and this 
*is* the age of narcissism, after all...

Brad DeLong