Liberals let Obama get away with unconstitutional actions

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FRI MAR 02, 2012 AT 01:52 PM PST

Where is the Anti-War Left?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/02/1070217/-Where-is-the-Anti-War-Left

Has it ever been more apparent that it is time to get out of Afghanistan? Has it ever been more apparent that we are on the path to yet another and even more dangerous and perhaps regional war? We've been here before. We know the signs and they are all around us.

I haven't written much about the war in Afghanistan lately or the drum beat for war with Iran, but I look for news about it every day and it is always on my mind. I know that the same is true for many anti-war activists here and others who see what is happening and want to do something about it.

The reason that I don't spend much time writing about it, and upon consideration this is not a good enough reason, is that, for the most part, there is no audience for diaries about our wars here on DailyKos anymore. In fact, there is no audience for stories about our wars in America. I find this to be very, very troubling. People have an insatiable appetite for minutiae when it comes to the clown show that is the Republican primary. But there is, apparently, no appetite for details about the war in Afghanistan and the multiple covert wars that we are fighting.

In the early and mid 2000s, we had a strong anti-war voice in the progressive blogosphere. Over time, it fizzled out. Yes, we have withdrawn combat troops from Iraq. But the war in Afghanistan is bigger and worse than ever. The covert wars are more widespread and more dangerous than ever and show no signs of abating. And now we have the ever increasing drum beat for war with Iran -- a proposal that drew a loud cry of opposition when Cheney was pushing for it but that now draws relatively little response here.

In the early to mid 2000s, progressive bloggers protested and lamented the lack of good and honest journalism on the war in Iraq. Bloggers countered the war propaganda on a regular basis and the number of readers and writers grew and became stronger and stronger. It could no longer be ignored by the politicians and the media. It took time and perseverance, but we made a difference.

But nowadays, the left in general and the progressive blogs, this one in particular, are failing miserably at this task, a task which I think is one of our most important. There are many good writers dedicating their time and energy to this subject but they are mostly at the smaller, lesser read blogs and web sites. There are also a number of good journalists who have been devoting a lot of time and news space to the subject of Afghanistan and Iran and they are doing a much better job than the netroots.

It is a grave failure on the part of the netroots. Maybe it is a sign of the end of an era, I don't know. If it is, this is a tragedy, in my opinion. Maybe we are becoming the thing that we once loathed. Maybe a new movement must rise up and take on the task that the Democratic netroots refuses to do when their party is in power. I really am not sure what the reasons are but I do know that nothing good will come from continued silence.

I am not just talking about the front page writers at DailyKos, though, with the exception of Meteor Blades, the silence on the issue of war there is deafening. I am also talking about the many strong writers in the community who are able to easily put diaries on the rec list for long periods of time, diaries which draw thousands of readers and page views. Very few of us are dedicating our time and energy to the cause of the anti-war left. Too much time is spent on low hanging fruit, IMHO, or on breathless but often shallow subjects that have a high probability of rising to the top.

Many front page writers and diarists are hard at work on the areas in which they have become subject matter experts and "go to" people for those issues. I am not begrudging them and in fact I salute them every day. But would it hurt for them to use their valuable voices and notoriety to help with the cause of the anti-war left every so often? After all, I can hardly think of another issue more dire and that has more impact on every one of us.

Perhaps even more importantly, the broader community of people who read, recommend and comment need to give more attention and support to the issue of war. Front page writers and diarists can get the ball rolling but if their posts are largely ignored, we don't get anywhere. So in the end, I believe it is all of our responsibility, all of us who care about ending the wars and preventing more war, who need to step up to the plate and do what is right. Many hands make light work. I believe we all need to do our part. I know that there are thousands of us here who care deeply about this.
When Cheney was calling for an attack on Iran, we thought it was insanity. But what about now? It seems more possible and more close than ever and where is the opposition from the anti-war left? Where are the hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in anti-war protests? Are we going to allow ourselves to be led into a possible WWIII with hardly a whimper simply because the guys ready to take us there are from our side? Perhaps most importantly, where are the grassroots organizations that we have helped to build, that we have supported? Where are they?

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Well I know the reason:

 

Vote accordingly and raise awareness.

What are you going to do?

 

More fear-tactic hypotheticals versus the REALITY of Obama the NDAA, Patriot Act, War on Drugs, drone bombs, indefinite dentition, US citizens
assassinated, undeclared war, warrant-less wiretapping of phones and social media etc. etc. etc.

Your ideology is a proven failure.

 

So your answer is "nothing" / support Obama's war crimes. What a surprise.

 

You wont do crap. You're a pathetic cultist, nothing more.

 

I don't expect you to do anything.