I’ve been a fan of Naomi Klein’s ever since No Logo. She has a piece up over at the GNN echoing what I said yesterday, namely that we have to hold all the new “changemongers” collective feet to the fire and demand that focus shift from the “corporate people” to actual, living citizens of the United States. Word is bond, Naomi!
The new president’s only hope of resisting this campaign being waged by the elites is if the remarkable grassroots movement that carried him to victory can somehow stay energized, networked, mobilized – and most of all, critical. Now that the election has been won, this movement’s new mission should be clear: loudly holding Obama to his campaign promises, and letting the Democrats know that there will be consequences for betrayal.Naomi Klein
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#1 by Courtney on November 11, 2008 - 9:43 am
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Sadly, I doubt the left will be doing lots of feet/fire holding. Even were Obama to make many of the same choices as Bush, the left would have to find some way to rationalize it. The can’t be wrong about this and if they are, I think they will do everything in their power to convince themselves otherwise. Everything except trying to obtain the change they were promised.
#2 by Patrick T. Laferty on November 11, 2008 - 11:17 am
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That is exactly what I am afraid of. That why I get so upset when I hear people say, “whew, so glad the election is over so I can go back to my normal life.” The election is day 1 of change. As much as it is up to Obama not to screw this up, it is equally our burden not to let him (or the Congress) screw this up. If the dems fail, two years from now should be the election of the independents, or the whigs, or the bull moose, or whatever party wants to distinguish themselves from the fray. This needs to be the turning point towards progress and if it isn’t, we have no one to blame but ourselves.