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• Tuesday, January 13, 2009 07:10 AM

  Where Can We Aggregate The Critiques?

  The theme is so important, that is, that we not equate criticism with an absence of veneration for Obama. But, I wonder where the powerful push points are?

  We have a Congress that systematically ignores what constituents such as I consider important.(My unanswered/robo-answered contacts about impeachment, among other plaints, attest to this, and I sense that many who bother to make contact experience the same.)

  I'm also aware of a neighbor, a long time democratic party activist. My impression of her is that she is little other than giddy about the process of transplanting parties. She appeared to me eagerly focused on the convention/nomination then, the inauguration now. It feels like she likes the ostensible power of it all.

  We have what I consider a wildly misguided misuse of potential with Move On doing little more than cheerleading, and steadfastly refusing to look at itself, to consider strategic media tactics to employ in a manner such as embodied by the "make me do it" FDR ploy. And Move On professes a membership of 5 million.

  And the corporatist media is so embedded in the workings of the political class, so utterly pliable, that it does for the most part play the role of political accident chasers and stenographers. (I only saw a snippet of Bush's farewell press gathering; got no sense that anyone had the slightest intention of, for once, challenging his lies, let alone his pissy demeanor.)

  So, how do we pull the feedback together so as to attempt some traction in a setting such as the above?

  —ZigoMandelbaum Read ZigoMandelbaum's other letters
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