Kendrick Meek on Activism

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Kendrick Meek on Activism
By: David Dayen Wednesday June 9, 2010 8:07 am	Tweet

A snippet from the America’s Future Now conference, where Rep. Kendrick Meek addressed the closing session:

“You’re supposed to make people like me uncomfortable. You’re supposed to make executives uncomfortable. Continue to challenge us and make us better. Continue to fight for people who cannot help themselves. We must continue to put on the pressure.”

I know there’s a lot of flattery here – he’s running for Senate and not doing much of a job of it yet – but the message is worth heeding. A lot of the discussions out here among some pretty pissed-off and deflated liberals have been about strategies for activism and advocacy. We can respond to the maddening complexity and too-often stupidity of politics in Washington by recoiling through personal disengagement, or by creating discomfort. I vote for the latter.

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One Response to “Kendrick Meek on Activism”

jaango June 9th, 2010 at 8:27 am

First, thanks for your reporting from this Conference.

Secondly, your statement of “I vote for the latter” seems appropriate.

However, I am a good natured Optimist and thusly, I believe in Ideas. Take, for example, no discussion or panel was held to address the notional that America needs a federal law that prohibits bigots and racists being memmbers of any political party, and especially in the Democratic column.

Consequently, having to be distracted by the bigots and racists, adds to time being wasted, and furthermore, leads to a severe distaste for politics.

As such, we can do far more for our progeny by understanding that Bush and Cheney left the bar on the presumptive high stand, laying on the ground. And from my perspective, Obama is comforted in knowing that this bar still remains laying on the ground.

Jaango