JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> But the impulse is not all wrong, to encourage ourselves
> and others not to retreat into domesticity or professionalism or hedonism or
> whatever other avenues might be open, just because the going gets tougher,
> which it will.
>
Yes.
I'm not in mourning for the election, but I am disturbed by hearing, for the first time since I wrangled with Jeff Jones (Weatherman leader) 35 years ago, a kind of tone of contempt for people that, if continued, can lead (and has led in the past) to either quietiesm (as Jenny warns against) or mindless violence.
But I'm not sure Jenny is correct that the the going will get rougher. For those of us primarily concerned with building the anti-war movement the going got rougher (as always in leap years) when everyone fled political activity to sit in the bleachers rooting for the home team (the DP). (I know Jenny was an exception: she was one of the few people I know of who "did both," not merely prated on maillists that one could do both.)
But since Wednesday morning (as exhibited by an explosion of posts on the local group's maillist) that a number of local activists have been marvelously activated, and not only to mindless doing but to strategic and organizational thinking.
All in all, I feel pretty good now that the Great Digression is over and people are beginning to think again.
Why mourn when there's nothing to mourn.
Carrol