Marcello, Sorry for not replying to your post sooner. As for citing the Jefferson Airplane, you may have a point. On the other hand, more young people may know of them than you seem to think is the case. Either way, the message contained in the quote I used applies no matter what generation a group is from. I agree with your point about "most" young people being political freelancers., but an awful lot of other people from your generation - and younger - consider themselves to be connected to either MoveOn/ the netroots - or in a more general sense …
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Francis, To reply to your question about what the different causes you cite may have in common - I would answer it this way: they place a greater value on fairness, empowerment, and human dignity than they do on the profit motive. As for your other question about whether or not the leaders and people involved in these different causes are in touch with each other, I would say the short answer is "yes." One of the main reasons I believe that a nationwide progressive movement has come into existence is that there is such a higher level of coordination now …
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My response to "Earth to Ken Brociner" can be read here. Ken Brociner
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Jon B.(the very first person to comment) has raised a number of important questions. Some of the other comments that have been posted do as well, but , on the whole, I find their tone and overly simplistic and dogmatic approach to be more than a little off-putting. Dfischman makes several good points - but I think he misunderstands what my basic position is. I urge him to read some of my other columns which are posted on the margin to the right of this column. Let me say that I completely agree with esentially everything he says in his second …
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The magnitude of McGovern's loss to Nixon in 1972 was due to a wide variety of factors - many of which had nothing to do with McGovern's progressive politics. This is not to say that McGovern would have won had it not been for, say, the terrible damage his reputation suffered as a result of the fiasco that resulted from his choice of Thomas Eagleton as his running mate - to name only one of the non-ideological factors that contributed to his landslide defeat. But really, scorp, if you honestly believe that "the Democratic Party went Marxist forty years ago", I …
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