Everybody knows that the captain lied
L. Cohen
Everybody knows but there is no hope. Progressives can invoke hope as soon as they themselves start to believe in it. They should, in fact identify themselves as a real force which WANTS SOMETHING.
( Sidebar. "There is one very important addition to the scathing picturing of the progressives above. Using the same language we can say that one of the most unfortunate features of the progressives is that those two groups also hate each other. Progressives are notorious for an inability to cooperate, coordinate and help each other. They betray each other all the time. Moreover, they are so desperately afraid of somehow being exposed as extremists, that they spend enormous efforts to disengage themselves from all national, religious, youth and race movements, which obviously only confirms the conclusion about them as being a bunch of weaklings.')
I am sorry to say but the message of the above sidebar is very much the truth. It is especially shameful in the light of the staunch loyalty and discipline of the right-wing-nuts and their machine. Whatever we can say about them, they care for each other. Do we?
OWS was a grass-roots youth movement in the Y2011-12. I watched the development of that fascinating movement, the real glory of our future and I was appalled by the passivity and even hostility among the various progressive-called and democratic groups to any possibility of OWS becoming a truly progressive political movement with demands, goals and ideology. On the contrary - the majority of the progressives effectively undermined any attempt to expand the OWS, to call for the racial and student groups to join, to actively involve the parents of the kids in the support net, to use the movement as a startup ignition fire for the new political party, to really fight for the goals those people came out for. The counterparts mobilized like an army, crushing the movement with the massive media barrage, slander and vicious deceit, portraying your children, our children as a bunch of lazy freaks. The Dems betrayed them the first. What a contrast to the way the Tea-Party was and is treated by the powerful elite. Just go watch the excellent documentary "The Billionaires."
(Sidebar. The OWS story had proven with painful clarity that the self-proclaimed progressive movement failed to fulfill its obligations as soon as real life stood in front of it. Progressives neither developed their own, new set of values, nor did they make any attempt to use the current framework of values to meet the OWS opportunity. It is a cruel irony that the Tea Party, an artificial to the core entity, a money- lubricated hate machine, a total lie - had successfully fulfilled its purpose and pushed the ultra- right people into Congress. At the same time, OWS, the pure truth, the real vox populi, was immediately undermined by the very people who were supposed to take a leadership. Instead of asking the best and the brightest of the OWS to start the process of future political leadership and commit to helping them, our dear liberals seemed to seek approval from the people like Rush Limbaugh. We could not handle our own truth.)
The absolutely unique endeavor of OWS died out ABSOLUTELY due to the betrayal on the part of those who were supposed to become its leaders. We, the progressives had been weighted and found too light.
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