obnoxious and cement headed single-issue organizers can be aggravating , but they provide the energy that gets results, when a mobilization for one of these pep rallies is in order...and just as the college types(where this stuff comes from) often respond to a rally by going out to support the football team, the political types could be energized to do something more than march...if?
how much more affective are the non-sectarian organizers who work at less splashy, day to day work at , say, changing the democratic party? from a corporate entity to an entity that contains a handful of slightly liberal corporate employees who occasionally suck up to big labor, big feminism and other big, safe and liberal segments but change nothing but the names and numbers, and leave the system intact?
are those types that much superior to the march organizers who insist on having speakers for mumia, etc? who would be better? speakers for hillary?
it's nice to see young and colorful people at a march, as I saw at the last one I attended, however dumb many of the speakers I didn't listen to may have been...the energy, the politics ,and thankfully, at last, the music and rhythm were better that ever...now what will we non-sectarians do about that energy, bursting - literally - all around us?
that is far more important than which crew of old-line lefties is doing what form of march and alientaing which group of less-old-line lefties who can't seem to convince people that their march, or slogan, or form of changing the world, would be better...
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