Andrew Golis

Alright, this article made me really happy. I know that activists all over the country have be preparing for the orgy of protests that will be the Republican Convention in New York. I was, let’s say “concerned”, that being our angry selves, we liberal activisty people would make a mess of the city and simply prove to the world that we’re a bunch of anarchist freaks and that it would back fire and make, as this article describes it, the Republicans look like the reasonable ones. Luckily, I wasn’t the only person who had this concern and, while I’m still skeptical, it looks like the forces and going to try to avoid this with preparation and “trainings.”

If you combine this with what many have described as the strategic nomination of Kerry (“we don’t like him, but swing voters will!”), you start to get a picture of a democratic party that is, GASP, deciding that it wants to win! While sure, this is a dangerous tendency in many ways (“who needs principles? We’re in power!”), we could probably use a dose of it, and none too soon.

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