The morning after with Michael Moore

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

In his recent post-election interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! activist film-maker Michael Moore, in tones of mourning more than anger, expressed his frustration with the Democratic Party and Barack Obama for (yet again!) naively falling into the Republican trap of offering "bipartisanship" and "compromise" rather than any sort of bold progressive change.

Anticipating Obama's post-election speech, Moore likened the leadership of the Democratic Party to the "abused" partner who over and over again submits to an "abuser."

How many times, he pondered, are the Democrats going to extend the hand of "compromise and bipartisanship" to a Republican Party that smacks that hand down, or worse, uses that extended hand to pull the Dems down prone to the ground?

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