Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

[Thomas Seay]

--- Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote:

> So where is their demo -- when is it scheduled?
> What are they getting done?
> 

Marta, let me ask you and others a question.  If Pat
Buchannon, and his associates, organized a
demonstration against the war, would you go?  And even
if you did go, wouldn't you at least hesitate because
of his politics?

Somehow, people like you get hypnotised by the word
"LEFT".  Since the WWP associates itself with the
LEFT,
it's ok to go to any demo they organize, but it might
not be ok to go to a Buchannon demonstration because
he is on the "RIGHT".

I, and some others, are not entranced by the word
"LEFT".  The WWP supports dictators and sytems that
are every bit as oppressive as what Buchannon
supports.  The fact that they call themselves
LEFTISTS, and employ the usual leftist rhetoric about
being for the working class, anti-war and for the
"people" is meaningless in light of the regimes they
support.

You ask where are the other demonstrations.  When you
study complex systems, you discover that it is not
always the best that wins out, but who/what starts out
first.  My theory is that after 9/11 the globalization
movement was perplexed by the new situation and had
some difficulty in mobilizing because of their
understandable confusion vis a' vis the situation. 
The void was filled by the WWP.  They weren't
perplexed...they just saw the same black and white
world that they always see.  America bad/Other good. 
And so, they seized the momentum.

-Thomas




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