Toughen Up
by BooMan
Wed Jun 16th, 2010 at 11:15:21 AM EST
http://www.boomantribune.com/...
One thing I've learned about the progressive movement (the white part of it, anyway) over the last three years is that it is very thin-skinned, tends to demand respect it hasn't earned, and refuses to have realistic expectations. It also has a very myopic view that focuses entirely on their agenda and almost not at all on the gorilla in the room, which is the alternative to our current center-left coalition. Given the current state of the Republican Party, which is focused on seceding from the union, using the tenth amendment to invalidate most federal legislation, birth certificates, race-baiting, onerous legislation against undocumented workers, passing state laws to restrict access to abortion, privatizing Social Security, repealing health care reform, weakening the United Nations, and obliterating Iran, it is crazy to allow one's movement to get into an adversarial position vis-a-vis the Obama administration.
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