MoveOn.org makes peace with war
In an excellent column, actual liberal Norman Solomon takes on those poseurs MoveOn.org for tacitly supporting the war effort. MoveOn was never more than a fundraising scam for the DNC, and a means of corraling progressives into not abandoning the Democratic Party regardless of what its positions on the issues were. Considering that MoveOn is a completely top-down, secretive (try finding an email address of a staffer on their site!) and totally unaccounatable organization with no board their current claim that their war silence is due to some sort of Quaker-style consensus-based decision making process is laughable. Ever since the Kerry campaign and the DNC hierarchy made it clear that War Is Good, the MoveOn campfollowers dropped the issue as anything other than a means of mildly and vaguely criticizing George W. Bush — with the presumption that he was doing a bad job of enacting a decent policy.
And people wonder why I never registered Democrat! Seriously, though, how much did anyone expect out of an internet fundraising site built around preserving Bubba Clinton’s right to lie about adultery?
