http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/25/medium-cool-redux-clip-of-the-day/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/25/medium-cool-redux-clip-of-the-day/#comment-111823 MovieMan0283 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:20:00 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=4127#comment-111823 There would not have been the same turnout in '68 in Robert Kennedy had been the nominee - and considering that Obama has been accepted as (whatever you think are the merits of the analogy) his spiritual heir, it's really hard to see what the protestors are getting at in their delusions. In fact it shows an extremely poor grasp of history. What bothers me most about the current state of the radical Left is not their attempt to make traditional protest seem necessary - we can all argue about that - but their attempt to make it seem "cool" the way it was 40 years ago. It just isn't. Period. And no amount of overdrawn analogies will make it so. Sixties radicals weren't trying to recreate 30s-era protest; they were responding to their own era. The modern Left has shown itself incapable of doing the same today. There would not have been the same turnout in ‘68 in Robert Kennedy had been the nominee - and considering that Obama has been accepted as (whatever you think are the merits of the analogy) his spiritual heir, it’s really hard to see what the protestors are getting at in their delusions. In fact it shows an extremely poor grasp of history. What bothers me most about the current state of the radical Left is not their attempt to make traditional protest seem necessary - we can all argue about that - but their attempt to make it seem “cool” the way it was 40 years ago. It just isn’t. Period. And no amount of overdrawn analogies will make it so. Sixties radicals weren’t trying to recreate 30s-era protest; they were responding to their own era. The modern Left has shown itself incapable of doing the same today.

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