[lbo-talk] Sad Story

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 26 16:05:32 PDT 2003


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>On a long car trip today, I discussed politics with my
>almost-14 year old daughter, and the Clintons came up
>as a topic. She said she'd vore for Hilary cause she's
>smart. I said I didn't like them because they knew
>what was right and did the wrong thing. Like what, she
>said. I said, like full employment, nationa; health,
>no striker replacement. Oh, she said, you mean
>_communism._ Like Ralph Nader.
>
>So that is how things look to a smart 13 year old. Old
>style liberalism is communism. Clintonism is the far
>limit of the possible. Are we fucked, or what? And not
>in the nice way.

Did you tell your daughter about the peace movment, the global justice movement, anarchism, the antisweatshop movement, the living wage movement...?



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