ArticlesJune 25, 20181 min read

Pick our fights wisely

Sam Webb

Not sure what the point of asking Trump press secretary Saran Sanders to leave a restaurant in Washington by its owner is. But I do know that it quickly become raw meat for Trump and the right wing media to enrage their base, while turning off some people on our side who have issues with Trump and GOP. We should pick our fights wisely.

I like to think that the starting point of politics shouldn’t turn on what we think or what gins us up or what we are ready to do. But rather on what others, not in our orbit, think and are inclined to act on. But for too many on the left that isn’t their point of departure. Instead, politics is primarily a platform on which one showcases their political credentials and expresses their personal outrage. That it might be an arena, in which the primary task is to move people into action, based on what they think and are prepared to do, while, at the same time, not throwing any softballs that will further enrage and mobilize the opposition isn’t uppermost in their thinking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-restaurant.html

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Sam Webb

I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago. While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut. I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.

Pick our fights wisely

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