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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren starts the pendulum swing back to the left. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)34. In the insanely hostile environment that Democrats are working in, it's a necessary form of stealth.
Zinn also said this:
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
If we remember those times and placesand there are so manywhere people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we dont have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
~ Howard Zinn
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It's about time. However, we still have Democrats right here in DU city that
rhett o rick
May 2013
#1
Bernie is supported by both the national dem party and the VT dem party and caucuses
cali
May 2013
#43
All we have to do is put them on ignore and we have our Democratic Underground
rhett o rick
May 2013
#26
In the insanely hostile environment that Democrats are working in, it's a necessary form of stealth.
freshwest
May 2013
#34
And if ANYBODY is fighting - it's Elizabeth Warren! SOMEBODY has to, Obama sure won't. -nt
democrat2thecore
May 2013
#10
You should read the entire article on Warren, I did. Senator Warren is a pragmatic liberal,
bluestate10
May 2013
#30