The Challenges Facing the Progressive Movement

Riffing off my earlier post about Wal-Mart and some "liberals'" penchant for regurgitating right-wing PR, Nathan Newman has a really insightful post about exactly the problems afflicting the progressive movement as a whole. Nathan's basic point is that many of the self-described "liberal" spokespeople/opinion-shapers have no sense of loyalty to anything - ideas, people, or ideology. In other words, as I alluded to in an earlier piece for In These Times called "Partisan War Syndrome," often times our spokespeople project an image of having no loyalty to any concrete convictions at all.

Nathan says that the question for this pundit class is loyalty to whom or to what, "and the fact that so many liberals really can't quite answer that question is why the progressive movement still isn't winning, despite scandal throughout the GOP and most folks agreeing broadly with many progressive issues and values."

He's exactly right.

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