I’m not sure “like” is what I want to do about his. Do you think, Tim, that it is possible that not everything is the fault of the “liberal consensus” you so like to talk about (and to chide)? Some of the opposition towards the ERA came from conservative women? Um, a lot of it did. Some of that was motivated by male and patriarchal gatekeepers, but a lot of it they totally figured out on their own. And for some of us on the left, the ERA was wishy- washy stuff—that I would dearly like to have back now.
Oh, absolutely, if we're talking about the reasons why progress isn't happening, that is primarily the responsibility of the people who oppose progress. What I'm chiding usually is the strategic and tactical mistakes of people in the struggle for progress who failed to recognize how strong and multivalent their opposition was, but in any struggle for a better world, the people who are at fault for the failure to get there are the people who don't want it in the first place.
Thanks. I think we need to be clearer about that, always. I well remember sitting in the library break room (my work study job was in the library), eating lunch the day after Reagan’s inauguration and thinking, “The people who hate me are now in power.” Looking around me, I wondered how many of my co-workers had voted for him. The total, I figured, was lots of them. I felt exactly the same walking around my neighborhood the day after Trump was elected. Which of my benign looking, dog-walking neighbors had voted for him? The same calculus applied.
I’m not sure “like” is what I want to do about his. Do you think, Tim, that it is possible that not everything is the fault of the “liberal consensus” you so like to talk about (and to chide)? Some of the opposition towards the ERA came from conservative women? Um, a lot of it did. Some of that was motivated by male and patriarchal gatekeepers, but a lot of it they totally figured out on their own. And for some of us on the left, the ERA was wishy- washy stuff—that I would dearly like to have back now.
Oh, absolutely, if we're talking about the reasons why progress isn't happening, that is primarily the responsibility of the people who oppose progress. What I'm chiding usually is the strategic and tactical mistakes of people in the struggle for progress who failed to recognize how strong and multivalent their opposition was, but in any struggle for a better world, the people who are at fault for the failure to get there are the people who don't want it in the first place.
Thanks. I think we need to be clearer about that, always. I well remember sitting in the library break room (my work study job was in the library), eating lunch the day after Reagan’s inauguration and thinking, “The people who hate me are now in power.” Looking around me, I wondered how many of my co-workers had voted for him. The total, I figured, was lots of them. I felt exactly the same walking around my neighborhood the day after Trump was elected. Which of my benign looking, dog-walking neighbors had voted for him? The same calculus applied.