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There was a big difference in guests on Tuesday, November 24  between Dylan Rattigan’s show and Amy Goodman’s. I like Dylan, but he pays too much attention to politicians. He had on some young insipid women named Crystal running for office as a Democrat. “Our generation believes in efficacy. Our parents believed in idealism…Our parents started out idealists and ended up cynical. We started out cynical and are becoming more hopeful.” Bleeeckkkkk! Urp! Barf bag please. She sure sounds like a politician though. Reminded my of Tracy Flick in the brilliant movie “Election”. It was very disheartening. New generation of politicians same as the old generation no matter what Crystal thinks.

So sadly I turned the channel and turned on Amy Goodman and one of the 43 students arrested and one of the leaders was a young woman not much younger than our Crystal. What did she talk about? Specifics, Crystal. Something we actually call efficacy. Berkeley Protesters on Democracy Now

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT 4: The demands that we have today, right now, are that we receive amnesty, those of us that had been acting and having demonstrations across the UC system. We’re also asking that the Bear’s Lair, which is the only immigrant owned business on campus, get a fair contract. We also are asking that one of the housing, the apartments that is affordable housing for students here, Rochdale Hall, remains as it always has been for a $1 a year lease to the student’s coop. And we’re also asking that the 38 workers, AFSCME workers, are rehired here on the campus.

Crystal would look sadly at this young woman and fault her for that awful idealist stuff like seeking social justice for her peers and for the unemployed. How naive. Doesn’t she know that she will never get near the seats of power that way, let alone get on the Morning Meeting.

But unidentified woman also passed the good looking test if that’s what it takes to get on MSNBC. So write to Dylan and see if he’ll have on a person who is seeking to change her world with a good heart and brave action.  She is the opposite of what Glenn Greenwald recently pointed out when he said that we have a young group of consultants, technocrats without a developed sense of empathy..."who give advice but don't advocate or push a cause."  Yes the mushy middle of the roaders who go along to get along and call themselves "Third Way".  OY!

    

 

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