I'm not at all convinced that we aren't on the verge of something of a cascade in terms of popular responses.
I teach in an extremely conservative area and a lot of my jokes make people nervous, but almost all of them laugh. Bush and the Iraq War as unpopular as Vietnam ever was. That there is no draft and no tradition of mass protest moderates the intensity of the reaction, but it's there. I don't think the focus has shifted to communities of color because there really isn't a focus for the movement yet. The mobilizations last spring were very impressive, but what's become of them? What has the Left tried to do to sustain such actions? To keep it in the streets, etc. ML
