Reply #69: As long as Moveon stays in the background

[tavalon]

and any of the politicians do the same, we're good. In fact the unions need to take a seat, too. This is organic, anarchic and fully grassroots. I watched Moveon go from a grassroots effort to something stodgy and astroturfed. Everyone who wasn't in from the ground up needs to be supportive but not leader like. This is a leaderless movement and for now, it must stay that way. Yeah, I know the anarchists prepared themselves for the organic moment, but they didn't start the fire, the people did and they are the ones we need to support, not Moveon, not ANSWER not President Obama, not even Jesse Jackson. He, btw, got it right from the start that he was to link hands and not stand out.

Don't stand out Moveon, support. All the other groups that want to support, please do, but don't try to lead. This isn't your revolution, it's our revolution, We The People. You are ground troops just like the rest of us. Don't do home voting where you don't even give your groups the choices they really care about (that's a call out to Moveon and their refusal to look at the wars after Obama was elected. Didn't think we noticed? We did).

The well worn phrase is Lead, Follow or Get The Hell Out of the Way. The first option is now closed and I hope that it remains closed. Join or get out of the way. Those are Moveon's choices just as they are President Obama's. We're done with that hopey, changey thing. We aren't looking to you guys anymore. Look to us. Be with us. Link arms with us and don't wear your monikers. If you are with us, you are a 99%er, not Moveon, not Greenpeace, not Earth First!, not the Democratic Party, not _________. Get it? We'll have no leaders and the more people say we must have leaders, the more we know that they don't understand what is happening right in front of their faces. Those are the ones who only have one choice - get the hell out of the way.

Moveon and the Democratic Party had their place and their time. Neither are now. Diffuse, anarchistic, consensus is the way of the future, possibly the only way. Will this achieve without violence from our side? I sure hope so as it is the only way we win. The ones who wish this movement to end will use violence and if we meet it with passive resistance, well, we're in uncharted territory, aren't we? No, wait, we aren't, see India and South Africa for some fine examples.

Keep that "we" attitude and help the people you work with to understand the "we" attitude and the need for Moveon to subvert itself to the collective and "we" will get along like a big, happy family. Onward to the barricades!