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My last post of the day...Number 5, I think.... Ditto to S. Artesian and Chris. You have to build a movement to draw people to the Left. That's your best shot at ever getting people who aren't now remotely sympathetic to the Left. And the active teapartybaggers who actually go to things are just that.... Saying that we're not willing to build a movement unless we want to spend quality time with people not remotely sympathetic to the Left is just sophistry. Worse, it makes me think I'm trying to explain to kids about the light in the refrigerator..... Oh, here's an article on the local event, where Joe the Plumber called for shooting immigrants.. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/kellys_corner/joe-the-plumber-wants-illegal-immigrants-shot-91051469.html After attending this event, several very enthusiastic students stopped by to share their insights. They repeated everything said there. As always, we talked through the issues, and I seemed to make some progress with them. However, as has been the case in the past, the minute someone they actually respect--someone the media tells them to respect--calls again for shooting immigrants, it'll be as though we have never had those discussions. Build a movement of progressive people around progressive values...a movement of people who respect themselves and are learning to respect their own judgments and it will be contagious. That is, people will learn to trust their own judgments and ideas rather than to cheer low-grade morons such as Joe the Plunger. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
