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Why Are Progressives Stupid? It's Not Too Late to Get Smart
Rall, Ted
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/30/why-are-progressives-stupid-its-not-too-late-to-get-smart/Date Written: 2017-08-30 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21327 Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years. Abstract: - Excerpt: Stupid progressive thing #4: never learning from past mistakes. Fighting the last war — fixing the mistakes you made last time without anticipating the challenges of the next encounter -- is a classic error of strategy. But progressives aren’t even good enough to make that error. They don’t even learn from their previous screw-ups. Inspired by Tahrir Square, the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement suffered from its lack of centralized leadership, a lack of formal demands, its welcoming of the homeless and mentally ill and a rift between revolutionary and reformist wings. But OWS’ biggest mistake was calendrical. They occupied public parks. Parks are outside. OWS began in the fall. The weather got cold, occupiers drifted away, morale turned sad. By the time Obama smashed the encampments with federally-coordinated violent raids, there wasn’t much of a movement left to destroy. Subject Headings |