On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> The subject line is someone's comment on Tom Hayden. We see its
> appropriateness in the following quotation.
>
>
> Quote of the Day (from Portside)
>
> '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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