bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:17 am Post subject: Would You Rather be Eaten by a Wolf or a Fox? |
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Cf. Obama obliterates the Left
Would You Rather be Eaten by a Wolf or a Fox?
The Deferential Party
By CARL FINAMORE
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Several of my favorite, most memorable quotations come to mind these days as I sadly observe what seems to me like abject, deferential genuflection before Washington�s Democratic Party majority by major labor and progressive organizations in this country.
Oddly enough, it is a poet and not a politician that provides the first insight into the problem. It is Oscar Wilde who famously quipped with his brilliant Irish wit that �true friends stab you in the front.� You have to think about that for a moment.
Maybe the much ballyhooed hope in President Obama has in fact stunned into silence the American reform majority that elected him. Maybe getting snubbed by Obama in the front is more disorienting and confusing than getting stabbed directly in the back by Republicans?
Let us consider a few developments since Obama�s election.
Recall that it was only in May that the heroic pro-choice Dr. George Tillman was murdered in cold blood. Not too long ago, such a violent challenge to the rights of women would have unleashed a massive series of public protests exposing the lies and provocations of right-wing anti-abortionists.
Instead, the National Organization for Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood and other prominent women�s rights organizations followed Obama�s lead and limited themselves to issuing paper condemnations, urging letters to Congress and proposing specific legislation. |
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| Ask the poor beleaguered people of Afghanistan. The Democratic administration is dramatically escalating US military intervention in that country above what we had during the Bush administration. Where is MoveOn.org? This extremely popular liberal organization gained millions of supporters for its anti-war stance during the 2008 national elections. |
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Then, of course, there is the bankrupt economy supposedly heading towards a �jobless recovery.� A ridiculous oxymoron conjured up by Wall St. sycophants in the administration who steadfastly refuse to support wage increases and a massive federal jobs program as the most effective relief for suffering working class families.
Facing this crisis, or rather backing away from it, the national AFL-CIO kept the midnight oil burning lobbying legislators but it wasn�t enough to keep the lights on at worksites across the country. Millions are laid off and just go home, if they still have one.
There has been not one significant protest.
Not even the United Auto Workers (UAW) with its long proud history asserted itself when they were falsely blamed for driving the industry collapse that was actually steered by the auto barons. Not in one plant, not in one shop was there any resistance organized by national labor leaders even though the dramatic local example in Chicago of the Republic Glass factory workers occupying their plant still lingers in our memory.
The malaise doesn�t stop there. We are witnessing labor�s number one legislative priority, the Employee Free Choice Act, being ripped apart on Capitol Hill like a gazelle carcass on the African savanna and yet labor sits quietly in their tents waiting to be rescued. |
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Do You Want to Be Lunch?
Malcolm X himself didn�t want to be anyone�s lunch so he warned against both the stealth Democratic foxes and the unrepentant carnivorous Republican wolves of his day. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| �true friends stab you in the front.� |
I prefer that.
Better to face the knife even if it does hurt then to find out later when your credibility is ruined by someone who stabbed you in the back, who never gave you a chance to explain.
The back is a sensitive place and is usually targeted by people who pretend to be your friend rather than a true friend who can stand there with you after the act of the stab.
By the way, you might as well give them the knife back  |
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