In These Times

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• • 05 Aug 08
  • 10:51 am

  Unwittingly, I think your last paragraph points to a major problem with building a "progressive movement": I mean, who the heck are the Jefferson Airplane? I'm almost forty and I recognize the name from my older brother's record collection, but how is anyone younger than me going to have a clue? The point being that the younger generation seems to have a very different perception of politics than folks my age and older. Many of them see themselves as "unaffiliated political freelancers", forming their own opinions independent of any larger "movement". They're justificably skeptical of organized politics. It's just too unwieldy, …

  Posted to Does a Nationwide 'Progressive Movement' Actually Exist?

• • 14 Jul 08
  • 8:18 am

  FInally! A sensible, reasonable article on a progressive website. There's a whole new generation of progressives that has been hungry for exactly this kind of thinking. We're fed up with the America-bashing, we're fed up with the personal attacks, and we're fed up with the dogma. We can see that it's gotten progressives nowhere except marginalized. We want positive thinking and real results, not endless whining and defeatist attitudes. Thank you, Ken Brociner, and thank you, In These Times. This truly is refreshing stuff.

  Posted to Dogmatic rhetoric is self-defeating

• • 19 Mar 08
  • 12:04 pm

  I'm no fan of Nader, but neither am I a fan of Democrats who still blame all of their own failings on him -- eight years later!

  Posted to The Nadir of Nader

• • 25 May 06
  • 11:21 am

  > the results so far have been outstanding No doubt about it, scorp,Iraq and Afghanistan are wonderful places to live these days. I suggest you move there immediately.

  Posted to Why Exiting Iraq Wont Be Easy

• • 25 May 06
  • 3:19 pm

  Dahlia, thank you for your perspective.

  Posted to Why Exiting Iraq Wont Be Easy