Right, so those who _consciously refused_ to show up are absolved of all responsibility. This is not only the definition of depoliticization, but of irresponsibility as well. And of dishonesty in pawning off the "blame" on others for your own refusal to show up to something that you know full well you _should have_ showed up for!
The Elections - more important than politics!
Actually, overall political conditions today are less favorable to a middle class antiwar movement than they were in the more liberal and optimistic 1960's. What is (in contradiction) more favorable is that the trade union movement - even as a whole, and not just the militant faction - is not nearly so far out in right field as it was in the sixties. The trade union membership is not made up of WW2 and Korea vets anymore.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- As for the black-led thing, on Nov 2, African Americans will vote in huge numbers for Kerry. My father-in-law, who teaches at Michigan State, reports that black student organizations have been registering black students so effectively that there aren't any left to sign up when he goes knocking on dorm-room doors. But that kind of black political activity doesn't seem to count.
Doug ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yep that's right, however sincere, their efforts are a total waste of their time and energy. They do nothing but validate a political regime that is CLOSED to them. If, after a Kerry victory any of them dare to voice criticisms, they will find out how closed it is. Then they can be welcomed into the world of leftwing blogdom with the rest of us. Either 1) complete demoralization and disgust with politics or 2) a reaction to the left, into our zone of pure negativity and exclusion - thanks to the antileadership of the pro-Dem Left.
-Brad Mayer