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- thwap
- I used to hang around on rabble.ca's "babble" until May, 2006, and, since then, I've been found at www.enmasse.ca and www.breadnroses.ca. Even more lately, I've been at EnMasse, but also numerous blogs from the progressive side. I'm sometimes rude to people and I've been accused of "schoolyard taunts," so, here's my schoolyard.
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4 comments:
Not so sure on this one, thwapster.
I wouldn't presume to offer a definitive explanation for the Occupy movement's success, but surely the recognition that electoral politics really doesn't accomplish much, given the influence of Big Money, has to be a big part of the reason for that success.
Playing the Democrats' slimy game by their slimy rules is just an invitation to being co-opted. At the very least it risks diluting the message. Occupiers are smarter than that -- I hope.
I really liked the first part of the essay and I read the second part as suggesting they do it for demonstration purposes only. I put a question mark in the title because I wasn't quite sure either.
I really wanted to post something because the old blog has been dormant for extended periods recently.
" ... the old blog has been dormant for extended periods recently ... "
Yep. I feel your pain.
Yeah, I noticed that. I hope it's because you're busy living a real 3-d life. That's been my problem. But it's good to see one's body of work, ... at least as a diary of one's politics.
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