[lbo-talk] pomo cultural lefties who valorize the poor

[Michael Dawson]

> Michael Dawson wrote:
> 
> >My only point is that working class people are full citizens of a
> democracy
> >that is working very, very poorly.  They should stand up and fix it, and
> >those of us who believe that should avoid calling them names for their
> >"instrumentality" but also not give them a pass from honest analysis.
> 
> Rather than "blaming" the masses, I think the uncomfortable truth
> some of us are dancing around is that the masses are more or less
> content with things as they are, and neither as dissatisfied nor as
> rebellious as we'd like. Or if not content, resigned to. We can make
> a long list of things that are wrong with our democracy, but though
> lots of us imagine there are great wellsprings of populist sentiment
> brewing under the surface that just the right political appeal could
> unleash, that just may not be the case.
> 
> Doug

Agreed, but you still have to act based on hope.  We don't know that
rebellion could happen, but we also don't know that it can't.