Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Matt Taibbi says:

“I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea. I admire young people with political passion, and am enormously heartened by the sheer numbers of people who time after time turn out to protest this idiot president of ours. But at the same time, I think it is time that some responsible person in the progressive movement recognize that we have a serious problem on our hands.

“We are raising a group of people whose only ideas about protest and opposition come from televised images of 40 years ago, when large public demonstrations could shake the foundations of society. There has been no organized effort of any kind to recognize that we now live in a completely different era, operating according to a completely different political dynamic. What worked then not only doesn’t work now, it doesn’t even make superficial sense now.”

To read the complete article, click here:
http://nypress.com/17/36/news&columns/Taibbi2.cfm

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Posted by Mickey Z on 09/08 at 01:15 PM
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