Carrol Cox wrote:
> ... We have about 200 people here on the e-mail list of the local anti-war
> group. About 6 to 12 come to meetings, and only about 30 at most to demos
> anymore. They are waiting for Obama to be good. When I talk to any of them
> individually I try gently to urge them to see the hopelessness of that; at
> demos if I speak I talk about the need for more people in on the planning.
> But most of them simply don't think it will do any good. And that's what the
> other thousand or so leftists around the nation have been doing for decades
> ... (By leftists I mean someone who (a) recognizes the necessity of a mass
> movement and (b) belongs to a local active group if one is around, whether or
> not he/she likes the group.)
>
> Waiting for "The Left" to do it for you is the same as waiting for Obama to
> do it for you. Someone (many someones) have to work to create a Left.
>
> Carrol