[lbo-talk] Enthusiasm

[Alan Rudy]

That's why there are so many leadership and leadership studies programs, so
that leaders understand the people's needs, man!  Are you saying that
leaders aren't responsible for exciting their followers?! 'Cuz its clear to
any thinking person that there are leaders and there are followers and
that's all there is to it! Come O-on! Some leaders got us into this mess and
now we need other leaders to get us out. ;-)

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> [This whole article is a knee-slapper, but the paragraph below is
> insanely hysterical: We street-fighting men and women were at home,
> waiting to be summoned to the barricades, but they never called us!]
>
> Enthusiasm?: I Am Not Interested in Things Getting Worse!
> By Bill Fletcher, Jr
>
> http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2010-10-27-10-51-34-campaigns.php
>
> [...]
>
> The deeper problem, and one pointed out by many people, is that the
> Obama administration did not encourage the continued mobilization of
> its base to blunt the predictable assaults from the political right.
> As a result, many people sat home waiting to be called upon to
> mobilize. Instead, we received emails or phone calls asking us to make
> financial contributions, or perhaps to send a note regarding an issue,
> but we were not called upon to hit the streets.
>
> [...]
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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