Reply #522: The man's chosen occupation is as a scholar.

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Cornell West is not an organizer. He teaches. He writes, and he gets an occasional moment on TV to share his viewpoint.

The organizer in all this mess is one Mr Barrack Obama.

He was the big community organizer.

But when the Tea Party went ballistic, starting in 2009, and demanding as its right to show up at Town Hall meetings and take control through sheer numbers, did our Mr. Community Organizer, now President, speak up about it?

No. He deferred.

Now as a community organizer myself, I was appalled at all of this. In the days before 2009, Town Hall meetings had mandatory sign-in sheets for anyone who wanted to speak. Anyone who wanted to speak could speak, but you were told to take a turn. before 2009, no one anywhere in America was allowed to bring in a truck load of people from somewhere else and shout down the speakers. They would be taken out of the meeting, by the moderators, who would use security force if necessary.

But for whatever reason, Obama deferred. I think that the DLC is simply complicit with the Republicans. They are all millionaires, every last person in the Senate, and most in the House.
(Yes, I know, Obama has STATED that he is not of the DLC. But don't actions speak louder than words?)

The DLC, in MNSHO, don't care about any of the major issues facing us. And the DLC would be shitting bricks in their pants if RFK, Martin Luther King or FDR showed up tomorrow to get the Democratic Party back in the hands of the real people.