Even if Obama were a liberal of the Edward Kennedy variety – which he isn’t – what situation would he find himself in as the Chief Executive of the sole remaining superpower, the biggest and strongest imperialist empire to ever stalk the earth?
Edward Kennedy had two of his brothers assassinated, and neither of them were radicals, not even remotely.
It has come down to this: the 2008 Democratic candidate for president (and his replacement waiting anxiously in the wings) are at best the late 1980s GOP president. The Democratic Party today is GOP-lite.
Is this what you want? Is that all there is?
Another Path is Possible and Urgently Needed
In the 1960s wearing long hair or flashing the peace sign were ubiquitous symbols of people’s opposition to what the government was doing and what the government stood for. They were declarations by individuals that they were against all of that and for a different way of being and seeing the world.
The spread of long hair and the peace symbol were part and parcel and an indispensable part of what made the Sixties the Sixties. It is impossible to imagine the Sixties without that whole panoply of forms of resistance, symbolic and material. (This was reflected as well in the music and the arts and so on.)
They were part of a society-wide reaction against the government and its policies and the larger zeitgeist of the 1950s American century.
There needs to be a society-wide sized repudiation of this government (and not just the Bush White House). We have virtually the entire leadership class in this country against us – public officials and mass media. They are not - they have already demonstrated this - going to do what should be done without being confronted with a social situation in which they are risking, by continuing to refuse to hold the Bush regime accountable, the possibility of tremendous social upheaval and even the possibility of something like a revolutionary situation.
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