Monday, December 09, 2002

The Need to Organise
"The Cheney/Bush administration has done us a favor by taking off the masks. It does not bother to hide its contempt or disguise its motives. Calvinist morality for the masses and yachts for the powerful. IN THIS COUNTRY, once upon a time, there was a great radical tradition. John Leonard has written about it a lot. He quotes the writer Harvey Swados, who has one character say, "One way or another, we tried to keep an idea alive. There weren't enough of us, there never are. We were ridiculously wrong about a lot of things but who wasn't? And what idea did they keep alive, the others?"

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