>If the people are listening, the
>message must not be worth hearing. How are we supposed to change anything if
>we think that way?
Maybe a lot of "us" don't want to change anything. As Ames concludes:
>This story of how the elite of the intellectual Left was roused out
>of their slumber and turned into a Vichy-uniformed mob out to lynch
>the one Leftist who made it out of the ghetto is the best
>illustration of why the Left is so marginalized and ineffective in
>America: the Left likes being exactly where it is, and it will
>destroy anyone who messes with this convenient set-up in the safe
>corners of the opposition, where it can play petty-Christ to pay its
>mortgages until the day Medicare kicks in. There is no real fight,
>just a lot of fist-waving at C-SPAN from the safety of one's home
>office, where reading buzzflash.com and getting angry are as far as
>anyone on the Left wants to go.
Of course, buzzflash.com is just part of the ABB gang, so we should shake a fist at them too.
Doug