[lbo-talk] Wrong Issues on the Intenet

[Dennis Redmond]

I said goodbye to my personal despair back in 2010, Carrol, but in all
honesty,  the whole point of getting Obama in there was never about radical
alternatives, which I fully agree was impossible. It was about pulling the
emergency brake of History, giving us another four to eight years to limit
the future damage of some horrible post-imperial backlash, and to build the
beginnings of genuine alternatives. That's what gave us the tiny bit of
space which led to Occupy, and Occupy opened up the space for BLM, and BLM
has now opened up the space for the Resistance to come.

I have no idea what it will look like. But I can dimly sense its presence
in the most progressive videogames and other transnational media texts I
analyze -- it's like the flash of lightning on the horizon, or the  low
rumble of thunder in the distance. A Storm is coming to challenge the
Shadow, and its might is beyond anything we can imagine.

-- Dennis

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Michael Brennan <
michael.brennan.us at gmail.com> wrote:


> These groups sprung up overnight since Trump's victory? I've been
> skeptical of claims that Trump would inspire some mass upsurge, and
> honestly, I still am. I hope you are proven right on this and I am
> proven wrong because the targeting of Muslims and other
> "undesireables" that Trump, Gringrich, and others are already talking
> about doing is pretty scary. It's going to take a much more powerful
> resistance than what we've seen up to now with BLM, Occupy, et al to
> stop this.
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > News sites & e-mail lists are offering a steady diet of opinion on how
> > leftists can avoid despair. That nonsense flows from an obsession with
> > elections.
> >
> > Thanks to Black Lives this year has been the best year for leftists in
> over
> > 4 decades; the political world (which does not include the farce of
> national
> > elections) is opening up for us. Obama's election in 2008 more or less
> > killed all left activity here in Central Illinois for 8 years.  Now
> suddenly
> > we have several different groups, including a BLM group. Clinton's
> victory
> > (or, worse yet, a Sanders victory) would have been a real problem.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
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