Via Sacramento Progressive Alliance: Obama Is Not The Issue. This Is About US

by Jonathan Tasini
http://www.workinglife.org/

    The anger against the president that has been rocketing around
many circles of liberal/progressive politics is misplaced.

    The crisis we face isn’t about what the president is doing, or
failing to do.

    We are under siege, fighting the greatest class warfare in perhaps
100 years. And we can expect very little help from a political system
that has aided, without regard to party, the looting of the country
over the past 30 years.

    The crisis we face is about us: the people who count themselves as
activists and leaders.

    Certainly, it does matter if we have good elected, political
leadership—and it is legitimate to point out the lack of leadership,
or just really bad leadership.

  BUT, leadership in the absence of a mass, focused, coordinated
movement is powerless—even if leaders, somewhere deep inside, want to
do the right thing.

  And we do not have such a movement.

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