Comments on: It is so sad, but… http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/07/it-is-so-sad-but.html Cutting through the effects of the US empire Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Deep Blade http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/07/it-is-so-sad-but.html/comment-page-1#comment-79 Deep Blade Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:03:23 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/07/it-is-so-sad-but.html#comment-79 Yeah, I more or less buy Dennis's arguments in the linked Demoracy Now! interview. Then, later, after watching the video of the Hersh talk, I basically resigned myself that the only small glimmer of hope that any of the Bush horrors can be reversed is through election of Kerry. Still, it troubles me greatly that my position has evolved to the "now is not the time for idealism" argument--as I have been more or less in the now very unpopular Cockburn/St. Clair camp over the last few years. But therein lies the problem: we can't have idealism mainly because everyone who had is abandoning it. Yeah, I more or less buy Dennis’s arguments in the linked Demoracy Now! interview. Then, later, after watching the video of the Hersh talk, I basically resigned myself that the only small glimmer of hope that any of the Bush horrors can be reversed is through election of Kerry.

Still, it troubles me greatly that my position has evolved to the “now is not the time for idealism” argument–as I have been more or less in the now very unpopular Cockburn/St. Clair camp over the last few years. But therein lies the problem: we can’t have idealism mainly because everyone who had is abandoning it.

]]> By: cs http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/07/it-is-so-sad-but.html/comment-page-1#comment-78 cs Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:32:08 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2004/07/it-is-so-sad-but.html#comment-78 I'm disappointed about a lot of things not in the platform: Kyoto endorsement; empowering women, department of peace,etc. But I'm trying to be an idealist without illusions. There was no way they were going to pin down the party on the war in the midst of so much volatility. We progressives have to accept that first we have to slow down this runaway train. We risk permanently derailing democracy if we try to switch tracks too soon. I’m disappointed about a lot of things not in the platform: Kyoto endorsement; empowering women, department of peace,etc. But I’m trying to be an idealist without illusions. There was no way they were going to pin down the party on the war in the midst of so much volatility. We progressives have to accept that first we have to slow down this runaway train. We risk permanently derailing democracy if we try to switch tracks too soon.

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