re: #218 debutaunt

I think the ‘right’ is inept at striking and protesting in general.

I’d agree with that. They’re really not good at either, and they’re not organised the way the left is online (and off).

One reason is that we had so much crazy on the left from 2001 onwards to about 2006. Lot of antiwar and antiBush sentiment and years to put together networks and online activism—and weed out our own crazies, or at least marginalise them.
When Obama came along there were already all these activist networks ready to organise and mobilise. Plus the Obama campaign itself was highly effective at it all.

The right is years behind us in terms of all of that. They should be using this time to regroup and form networks the way the left did, and restructure their party. The tea parties do show that there is that legitimate sentiment out there waiting to be tapped and organised.

Unfortunately, the GOP seems content to just whip people up into a froth and promote craziness instead, and the tea parties are overrun with nuts and organised by nuts.