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Related: About this forumThe Surrender of America's Liberals
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In a Web-exclusive interview, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his new article in the March issue of Harpers Magazine a challenge to Americas progressives provocatively titled, Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.
In the piece, Reed writes that Democrats and liberals have become too fixated on election results rather than aiming for long term goals that address the issues of economic inequality, and that the administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama too often acquiesced to the demands of Wall Street and the right.
As a result, Reed tells Moyers, the left is no longer a significant force in American politics. If we understand the left to be anchored to our convictions that society can be made better than it actually is, and a commitment to combating economic inequality as a primary one, the left is just gone.
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The Surrender of America's Liberals (Original Post)
deutsey
Feb 2014
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)1. " too fixated on election results rather than aiming for long term goals "
Yup.
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. I don't think it is the LIBERALS who are fixated. It is the Third Wayers, IMO.
Progressives are constantly berated and scolded and told that the important thing is only to win.
I think there is a growing gap between "liberal" or "progressive" and "Democrat". The Democratic Party has been greasily oozing to the right.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)3. I agree.
I was mostly thinking of conversations at this site.