[GPSCC-chat] The left is in sad shape?

[Gerry Gras]

Common Dreams has an article about the status of the left:
"Liberals Face a Hard Day’s Knight?"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/25-7

"In his Harper’s piece, Reed argues that Democrats and
liberals have become too fixated on election results,
kowtowing to the status quo rather than aiming for long
term goals that address the issues of economic inequality."

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It's mostly about an article in the March Harper's,
“Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.”.
The first few sentences can be found at
http://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/nothing-left-2/
To get more requires getting a year's subscription.
I'll go read it at the library.

The quotes below are alleged, by Common Dreams, to be in the
Harper's article.

"the left operates with no learning curve and is therefore
always vulnerable to the new enthusiasm. It long ago lost
the ability to move forward under its own steam…"

"The crucial tasks for a committed left in the United States now are to 
admit that no politically effective force exists and to begin trying to 
create one"

Gerry