On Dec 21, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> It was Gore Vidal's remark about Hayden, I think. Quit appropriate.
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> --CGE
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> On Dec 21, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>> The subject line is someone's comment on Tom Hayden. We see its
>> appropriateness in the following quotation.
>>
>>
>> Quote of the Day (from Portside)
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>> 'A major challenge for progressives is whether it is possible forge
>> consensus on vision and program [or as consultants call it, narrative].
>> Obama is re- emphasizing an emphasis on economic inequality, framed as a
>> choice between being on your own or all in this together. That's a start for
>> Democrats, and a welcome echo of Occupy Wall Street. The same theme accounts
>> for the exceptional rise of Warren and De Blasio. But it is a fuzzy and
>> incomplete vision, a blended blur of the New Deal ("expand Social Security")
>> and the New Economy ("Facebook and Google will set us free"). The faulty
>> vision reflects fault lines in the underlying coalition. Balancing the
>> contradictions is the key to building a winning majority coalition
>> electorally; too far in either direction can result in splits which favor
>> the Republican strategy of divide-to-rule.'
>>
>> Tom Hayden, longtime activist and former California state senator
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