[lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

This post is my reward for parsing through quite a few unintelligible posts
from Carrol.  The issue *is organizing ourselves*. You can't have a
"liberal-left" alliance without a confident, organized left.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
> Why? Who cares?
>
> But who is this "we" you are talking about? A bunch of scattered
> individuals do not constitute a "We," and calling for a non-existent
> "we" to do this or that is childish. Let's move the cardboard cows from
> the cardboar barn and put them in the cardboard meadow.
>
> It might make sense in a classroom but it makes no sense from a
> political perspective.
>
> I am getting increasingly impatient with this utter failure on the part
> of so many who call themselves leftists to recognize that the issue is
> organizing ourselves. Then we can talk about "reaching out" but not
> before.
>
> Carrol