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26. Occupy has been good, but too narrow a front.....

Reply to Fantastic Anarchist (Reply #21)

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 06:30 PM

Jul 2013

the bad guys have their think-tanks, legal bulldogs, corporate PACs, etc. Where is the "left-wing ALEC"? What umbrella groups do we have that could bring together all the left-oriented groups into a co-ordinated front? We don't have an anti-Norquist, an anti-Rove, an anti-Ralph Reed..... Progressivism would be much more powerful if it could channel its forces into a cohesive, coherent wave, like a laser does with ordinary light. We have a lot of bright bulbs that can spread light weakly over a broad dark area; we lack the laser that can focus that light on a target and blast it with force.

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