ha! i thought carrol would get a kick out of this. a blogger, commenting on how "the left" has dropped the ball. Taryn notes that writers on the left have weighed in, pro and con, often complaining that OWS lacks solutions or analyses, yadda. Her response is to compare them to a bunch of complainers commenting on a sporting event. made me laugh:
"Gee, wouldn't it be great is if we had a bunch of progressives who were paid to think about such things full time? Maybe whole groups of people who wrote endlessly about politics, economics and how to make a more equal society? So yeah, you get my point - that would be the progressive blogosphere. (Many of whom have advanced degrees in economics and are employed full time at think tanks and/or universities).
Why isn't the Left jumping in an providing suggestions? Why isn't it reaching out to the protesters, offering to answer questions, to provide expertise? To my knowledge, only one blogger/think tanker did - Mike Konczal. (And bravo Mike Konczal!) Other than that, the entire progressive blogosphere - with a single voice - just gave their personal opinions (more than a little hippie punching, btw), as if they were commenting on a sporting event."
http://plutocracyfiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/left-drops-ball.html
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