WHO
CAN YOU TURN TO WHEN NOBODY'S LISTENING?
Once
again, the President is turning his back on the base, caving in to
Congressional right-wingers and corporate special interests.
The
administration’s undermining of civil liberties, scant action on
climate change, huge escalation of war in Afghanistan, expansion of
drone warfare, austerity policies serving Wall Street and shafting
Main Street, vast deference to corporate power. . . The list is long
and chilling.
From
this spring onward, a wide range of progressive groups should be
prepared to work together to effectively renounce Obama’s
leadership.
This
spring, there’s a lot of work beckoning for progressives who mean
business about gaining electoral power for social movements; who have
no intention of eliding the grim realities of the Obama presidency;
who are more than fed up with false pretenses that Obama is some kind
of ally of progressives; who recognize that Obama has served his last
major useful purpose for progressives by blocking a Romney-Ryan
regime from entering the White House; who are willing to be here now,
in this historical moment, to organize against and polarize with the
Obama administration in basic terms; and who, looking ahead, grasp
the tragic folly of leaving the electoral field to battles between
right-wing Republicans and Democrats willing to go along with the
kind of destructive mess that President Obama has been serving up.
A
song by Tony Bennett:
“And
maybe tomorrow I'll find what I'm after
I'll throw off my sorrow, beg, steal, or borrow my share of laughter
With you I could learn to, with you what a new day
But who can I turn to if you turn away?”
I'll throw off my sorrow, beg, steal, or borrow my share of laughter
With you I could learn to, with you what a new day
But who can I turn to if you turn away?”
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