On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Indifference and impotence are two facts of life on the American left.
Not indifference. American leftists *care* - and care deeply, about everything, all at once, in a giant list. Often with little sense of how it all fits together, not to mention organization or strategy.
> The main problem is not so much those facts themselves as American
> liberals' and leftists' refusal to admit to them, the refusal that
> results in their pronouncements about "what to do about Iraq" being
> completely divorced from reality, even more divorced from it than
> Republican and Democratic politicians'. When Republican and
> Democratic politicians say something delusional about Iraq, at least
> they have the power to act on their respective delusions (and make
> others suffer from them). Not so with us.
So we're powerless on Iraq, but you think you can turn it around with Iran and Palestine? That doesn't make any sense. Why not emphasize something with some actual promise, like living wage legislation or national health insurance?
Doug