Re: Organizing communities, on the left and right

Dear Ivan, As usual, you are a voice of great clarity. I think Tim Wise is right [Red-Baiting and Race: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman] that there is an element of racism in some of the anti-Obama anger and fear that people are expressing in Town Halls and blogs. But I also think there’s [...]

Organizing communities, on the left and right

Has the mainstream left gone insane in response to these town halls on health care reform? When you have what you see is an illegitimate process set up to provide the appearance of taking people’s views into consideration when in fact the outcome is a foregone conclusion, then of course you try to shut down that process.