[lbo-talk] Purging Black Votes: 2000 and 2004

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 1 14:57:12 PDT 2004


R wrote:


>society may have improve in some ways during the 1960s, but much is rolled
>back and replaced by privatization, nonsense about "reverse discrimination,"
>deregulation, the "war" on drugs, the "war" on terror, et al. and jim crow
>once again rolls along.

This is one reason the left has so little broad appeal - there are deep reservoirs of pessimism, decline, depression, and fear in our discourse. We're literally hopeless, and can't even enjoy our victories. Cheer the fuck up.

Doug



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