More on the Post-November Patriots
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jan 09 2009 at 2:14 pm | Filed under: Liberalism Watch
As I discussed before. They’re at it again.
After generations of finding their voice in dissidence, some Americans on the left wing are adjusting not only to a new postelection comfort with patriotic symbols, but also to the political reality they represent. Believing in Obama after Inauguration Day will mean identifying with the machinery of U.S. power.
“There’s a left-wing tradition of being systematically opposed to the U.S. government, knee-jerk reactionary - most of our presidents have made it fairly easy to do,” said Jo Freeman, author of “At Berkeley in the Sixties,” a memoir of her student activism. “Those who view everything the U.S. does as automatically suspect already have a problem doing that with Obama.”
Read the whole thing at House of Erastosthenes
