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
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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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^^^^^^^ CB; At first I thought I was in rare agreement with Comrade Beck on his "waiting to be summoned to the barricades" criticism. But then I found the following in the article , by which Fletcher places blame on "the social forces" for not mobilizing themselves.
"Unfortunately, the main problem rests neither with the Obama administration nor the Democrats in Congress. It rests with the failure of the social forces that elected them to keep the pressure on. Too many of us expected results without continuous demand."
CB: And of course the notion that the whole article is a knee-slapper is straight up Peter Panism from political Never-Neverland, an epidemic condition here. I know you never want to grow up , but it doesn't work for political analysis.