Monday, September 15, 2003
Four years on . . .
I stumbled on a 2000 election-era dispatch that makes for amusing reading now. From an article chronicling Al Gore's 11th-hour counterattack against Nader, I ran into the following quote from a Naderite:
a Nader supporter handing out leaflets, Joe Katroscik, repeated arguments made by many Nader supporters, who say that a Bush victory might just invigorate what Mr. Katroscik described as a "true progressive movement" in the country.
"Sometimes you have to cut the trees back," he explained. "Sometimes you have to really prune back the tree in order to help it grow."
I wonder how he thinks the tree is doing now? Was he on a branch that was due to be cut? Or, like most the Green Party base, was Joe from the upper-middle strata of our society, as he calmly assessed the need for pruning? Bet he didn't think that trees other than our own would be pruned. I'll take a wild guess and assume that (unlike myself) he didn't support the Iraq war.
Remember this. These arguments have been deployed before and they will be deployed again. Don't let anyone who said this in 2000 pretend that they didn't.
The story was found at Common Dreams
I stumbled on a 2000 election-era dispatch that makes for amusing reading now. From an article chronicling Al Gore's 11th-hour counterattack against Nader, I ran into the following quote from a Naderite:
a Nader supporter handing out leaflets, Joe Katroscik, repeated arguments made by many Nader supporters, who say that a Bush victory might just invigorate what Mr. Katroscik described as a "true progressive movement" in the country.
"Sometimes you have to cut the trees back," he explained. "Sometimes you have to really prune back the tree in order to help it grow."
I wonder how he thinks the tree is doing now? Was he on a branch that was due to be cut? Or, like most the Green Party base, was Joe from the upper-middle strata of our society, as he calmly assessed the need for pruning? Bet he didn't think that trees other than our own would be pruned. I'll take a wild guess and assume that (unlike myself) he didn't support the Iraq war.
Remember this. These arguments have been deployed before and they will be deployed again. Don't let anyone who said this in 2000 pretend that they didn't.
The story was found at Common Dreams
