[Billthedrill]

The retreat into the combative and the adversarial is the left's self-inflicted wound. It saves thinking.

I get the broad sense that the "antiwar" coalition was an integral part of the Democratic constituency that was just waiting for a chance to (1) form solidarity, (2) jump on Bush, and (3) persuade itself that it was still the sole repository of conscience in the United States, just as it was erroneously convinced was the case during Vietnam. This places them, in this case at least, in the position of defending everything they are ostensibly against, i.e. fascism, dictatorship, nuclear weapons, religious extremism...and they don't care. To be united and against the Republicans is sufficient. It is a sad, superficial, and ultimately self-defeating reflex.

[Gothmog]

I wish the jackasses would do us all a favor and reflexively kick themselves in the head. Save us the trouble.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"To be united and against the Republicans is sufficient. It is a sad, superficial, and ultimately self-defeating reflex."

I beg to differ. This is a happy thing for America and for freedom precisely because it demonstrates that the Left is in a 'reactionary' state. When their agenda is not proactive or 'progressive' and in accord with the unfolding of events, they become the defenders of the status quo and, thus, static in their analysis of current events and tactics of change. That, in itself, is remarkable.

Perhaps we can make it commonplace and thereby cement it in the consciousness of the public?

[snopercod]

I've lived long enough to see the anti-(vietnam) war movement morph into the anti-nuclear movement, then the environmental movement, and now back to the anti-war movement.