The reports are coming out about this year's meetup, with various reactions and judgments and speculations, most focused on the smoke and mirrors of the 2008 pres campaign.
What seems most significant to me, at least, are the reports that the vast majority of attendees were white, male, middle-aged and middle-class.
This is not good. One foresees the same splintering then of the "Netroots" focus, and thus effectiveness, that happened in the 70's with the left: because there was so little room for women and for others than white and male, the women and the other non-white groups splintered off into their own concerns and focus. Thus, focus was never on the essentials of a democratic society: elections + WORTHY CANDIDATES and the development of them; the eyes went off health care entirely, that allowed then, Nixon's and Ehrlichman's plan to move in for corporate profits; the same with education, and thus poverty.
One would hope that after all this time the so-called left, the progressives, etc., would at least have learned the lessons of how women must be at least 50% of the decision-makers.
When they're not, Bad Things happen.
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i didn't hear much anti-war talk either
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