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seph commented on the blog post The Transpartisan Imperative
Progressives are neither numerous nor cohesive enough these days to make much of anything happen on our own
Agree on the lack of cohesion but I have to disagree on numerous. We are numerous, certainly in terms of what people believe in, just not represented.
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seph commented on the blog post VIDEO: FDL Member Town Hall With Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Moore and Josh Koster
Thanks for the feedback. BTW I needed that talk from Ellsberg.
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seph commented on the blog post VIDEO: FDL Member Town Hall With Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Moore and Josh Koster
Daniel Ellsberg was not espousing a general strategy of voting for the lesser of two evils. He took great pains to explain that, in his view, we now have two bad parties and that we need to somehow extricate ourselves from both of them. He was talking about responding to the situation we are in right now. Which I don’t need to explain to anyone here, is scary and getting scarier by the minute. Ellsberg and Moore were both advancing the idea that we might be able to pull off some sort of a progressive or third party run over the course of the next two presidential elections. Ellsberg was concerned that in the process we not inadvertently allow a Republican to win the presidency while being beholden to the tea party crazies who apparently want to destroy the country in order to save it. Both Ellsberg and Moore were on board with grassroots efforts to elect third party or progressive Democrats from the congress on down starting now. We’re here folks – in interesting times. We need to be thoughtful and deliberate about our course of action from here on out. We are at a tipping point and have a chance to pull something amazing off because both of the current parties in power are weak now. We just need to take care that things don’t get tipped in the wrong direction. That was the message I got. Please let me know if I got it wrong.
