On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:21 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> But whenever crowds on the left start to get excited about even
> mildly crazy TP-type stuff -- "corporate personhood" or "moving
> money" to take two recent and exceedingly mild examples -- you and
> Doug -- the two guys who seem most to yearn that we could have
> something like the right has -- are first in line to hose them down.
It's essentially right-wing populist nonsense that will accomplish nothing.
Why not a mass movement for single-payer, free college tuition, and/or a higher minimum wage? These are completely sane things with enormous potential appeal. If the labor movement weren't so fucking braindead, such a movement could actually have some financial and human resources.