http://www.borenforum.org Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:36:26 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.borenforum.org/2011/05/general-dynamics-job-opening/comment-page-1/#comment-569 ZhenyaLomize Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:36:26 +0000 http://www.borenforum.org/?p=2267#comment-569 For more job listings posted by other Boren alumni, log into our online forum and click on Job Announcements (http://www.borenforum.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?13-Job-Announcements). Good luck! For more job listings posted by other Boren alumni, log into our online forum and click on Job Announcements (http://www.borenforum.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?13-Job-Announcements). Good luck!

]]> http://www.borenforum.org/2011/06/policymic-liberal-alternative-to-the-tea-party-debating-the-war-on-drugs-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Niko Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:11:02 +0000 http://www.borenforum.org/?p=2464#comment-278 This article doesn't give to much information about what exactly the platform of this "Movement" will look like. I do think there is a large number of young people -- myself included -- who are disillusioned with Democratic Party politics; however, what I think the Pew poll doesn't show (and largely because it can't) is that many of us are disillusioned with the Party because we see it as not left-leaning enough. That is to say, those who dislike the Democratic Party and lean more towards the right in terms of whatever issues are most relevant to them have other options, while those of us who seek a more radical left in the US are left with no alternatives. I think this has a lot to do with America's recent history of state-sponsored anti-Communism and anti-Socialism. I also don't doubt that right-leaning people make up the majority of the American populace, but I think it's more important that rightists are powerful and less-so that they are numerous. There are plenty of radical leftist Americans, but radical leftist political activity, language, and thought are sanctioned neither by the official state apparatus, nor the culture of the majority generated by the propaganda of the state. If this movement intends to provide a radical leftist counterbalance to the radical right, I doubt it will get very far. Which is sad, whether I agree with its platform or not. But that's a whole other kettle of fish... This article doesn’t give to much information about what exactly the platform of this “Movement” will look like. I do think there is a large number of young people — myself included — who are disillusioned with Democratic Party politics; however, what I think the Pew poll doesn’t show (and largely because it can’t) is that many of us are disillusioned with the Party because we see it as not left-leaning enough. That is to say, those who dislike the Democratic Party and lean more towards the right in terms of whatever issues are most relevant to them have other options, while those of us who seek a more radical left in the US are left with no alternatives. I think this has a lot to do with America’s recent history of state-sponsored anti-Communism and anti-Socialism. I also don’t doubt that right-leaning people make up the majority of the American populace, but I think it’s more important that rightists are powerful and less-so that they are numerous. There are plenty of radical leftist Americans, but radical leftist political activity, language, and thought are sanctioned neither by the official state apparatus, nor the culture of the majority generated by the propaganda of the state. If this movement intends to provide a radical leftist counterbalance to the radical right, I doubt it will get very far. Which is sad, whether I agree with its platform or not. But that’s a whole other kettle of fish…

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