That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. We just wrapped up a shorter-than-normal, urgent-as-ever fundraising drive and we came up about $45,000 short of our $300,000 goal. Get some sort of statement together, and let DiA and others know for sure exactly how radical (or not) this generation of young liberals really is.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. I’m sure the wider lefty blogosphere would be happy to help. You’re in leadership positions whether you like it or not. But that didn’t stop the kids at Port Huron (or in Sharon, Connecticut, for the matter). al.: Why not? Sure, no one appointed you or elected you. (That doesn’t mean Yglesias is wrong.) DiA thinks “there’s something going on with these guys,” and it could lead to “the kind of thing you saw happen to those clean-cut moderate liberal kids who wrote the Port Huron Statement.” Meanwhile, as DiA notes, Yglesias has been calling for the abolition of the US Senate. The country, and the system, will continue to whistle while our wages get eaten up and our government tumbles further into debt and our interest rates rise and other priorities get squeezed out and a serious and painful fiscal reckoning inches ever closer. The (anonymous) DiA blogger points to this post by Klein as evidence of a near-total loss of faith in the system: In a different era, if you were less kind, you might even describe Ezra Klein’s and Matt Yglesias’s recent claims-that our political system is irrevocably broken, that we won’t do anything about health care costs or global warming-as “shrill.” DiA compares Klein and Yglesias to Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, which is another way of saying the same thing. The Economist‘s Democracy in America blog has a fascinating post on the shift that seems to be happening in the thinking of the moderate, lefty blogosphere from process-oriented gradualism towards what you might describe as a kind of revolutionary cynicism. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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