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The evils of MoveOn

As detailed by Bionic Octopus:

Vocabulary quails before the task of expressing how much I hate MoveOn. There simply aren’t the words. I remember vividly the early days, in the wake of 9/11, when it gained prominence with the wholly admirable and genuinely progressive goal of aggregating grassroots pressure to stop the US bombing the living shit out of Afghanistan. It was a good thing then, and I was proud to be a member. The velocity with which it has since turned into a Democratic Party vacuum-cleaner-cum-cheerleading-squad is positively whiplash-generating. MoveOn exists to siphon genuinely progressive energy and outrage (not to mention cash) out of the population and channel it safely, harmlessly into the sump of the DNC. MoveOn is the shepherd that nudges all the outlying lefty sheep back into the Democratic fold with ringing exhortations to action and progress and fighting the good fight.

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They have surrendered every last claim to power. The nuclear option’s been defeated ‘unless the Republicans break their word’? Mm, yeah, that’s security. They’d never do that. But fear not, because ‘if that happens we will be in a much stronger position to stop them.’ Uh, how exactly? With a mighty Senatorial chorus of ‘Hey, no backsies’? Disgraceful. Shameful. Craven.

Something to think about. So are the Democratic Party and all its allies an albatross around the necks of a real progressive movement, or can they still be redeemed in some fashion become, if not socialist at the very least leftist?

The Democratic Party does feel like the only game in town for any leftist, as any other leftwing organisation is so much smaller and so much less powerful. Building a party to challenge the Democratic party is a task of years, if not decades.