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6 t & ye 1 *A s â€" l g is g I‘ m uf Mich o ous t S Roger also c 5 In hus g Down # our fu it CLor ; in arl Fax No. ts being led by UPS drivers and bookstore workers. 1 say, with all hhm.flmh‘dfludmm,g over yourselves and start talking like a real person, then start talkâ€" ing to real people." buttles, it now doesn‘t know how to live any other way. It‘s kind 0 scary. wat it, to think that we could actually reach a mass audience Or that after all these years of future, real change could actually wweur in our hletrme. Betier to light among ourseives‘ It‘s an uncomâ€" hortable unfamihar fecling, isn‘t it, to get a whill of real populist proâ€" gressive movement taking shape." There are clear differences in the Canadian experience that can‘ be accounted for in Moore‘s article (when, for example, was the last wmne that the "liberal" meant "left" in this country?). Neverthcless, as dilficult as his selfâ€"criticism criticism is to swallow for leftists, Moore‘s prescription could definitely benefit the Canadian left as much as the American. "The signs are everywhere, but "the Icft" cant read a roud map. There‘s a whole New Politics taking place, and | e argues that the public "despises liberâ€" | CC als. If they knew where to find the "" nutty left, they‘d despise them, 1oo » L_‘é Â¥ They see liberals, progressives and | i . lefues as arrogant, selfâ€"rightcous and , ’) dreadfully predictable." It‘s the left‘s 4 own fault, writes Moore, as it focuses on trendy pet issues that matter little to regular folks. "If you refuse to parâ€" neipate in the real world, how are you ever goung to effect change? Back in the cighties thousands of you went to Micaragua in Sundinista brigades. Yes, that was important work, but 1 never saw a single one of you come to Flint while the sorlds lLirgest company was destroying the lives of 30,000 families Where were you when we needed you?" Why is i that, in spite of the fact thas "the difficult organizing work has already been done for us by Big Business®. that the Amerxan ielt has been Mwmhw\.-pndm- on this disâ€" illection? Moore speculates that "because the left has lost so many buttles. it now doesnt know how io hve anv athor wo ts Lt â€"f | â€" â€" \t'< . E’j Scott Piatkowski Waterloo Town Square 75 King St. South, Suite 201 _ Waterloo, Ontario N2J IP2 ple lhpzupkn-ahdy-qdlddthtkh.‘“mymo‘bnng downsized. rightsized, reâ€"engineered and forced to work longer hours for less pay and fewer benefits, they already know from their Mcxmzlhmwmnuh.ma\d undemecratic. They know that corporate America is the enemy, that the media are telling them lies and | that the Democrats and the v Republicans are actually the same : â€" ANOMIBR | M o rartan in f that the public is very "Icft" on all the m issues â€" the mujority are proâ€"choice, is the left talking to itself? also contained some of the starkest social commentary of our time. In his shortâ€"lived but brilliant series TV Nation and his recent book Downsize This he continued to prick our consciousness by tickling our funny bones. (Wm&lwommbmhflmum an arnicle enutled is the Left Nuts (or is it Me)?. published in the curâ€" rent issue of The Nation. In it, Moore lishes out at the American ie lor "completely ignoring anything that really matters to the Amenican public ... I‘m convineed there‘s a good number of you who are sumply addicted to hstening to yourseives talk and talk and talk." Moore wonders whether the Ieft "loves humanity but loathes peoâ€" Avomitr VIEW Jenniler Bettke Tim Gardner Deborah Crandall and his recent book iousness by tickling of being ’:’ihm tice Carolyn Ansiey 1 »‘-"0:.':..00.---um;cltc-. docus Classified: Der Shannom Blacker Major Accounts Bill Karges It seems to me that there mu hung up on the 1dea of getting headed, but Harris and friends n He‘s going to have his hand loading. not to mention ration muanicipal services, a little ma over from last term The thing is most folks give a darn. They vore fo the party Come to think difference in the parties A than a Grit with richer fri Bigger Role: Now that expecting more from Reg Seiling. Until now, he‘s bee lors and, in a sort of way, their employee. Party Lion: It strikes me didate‘s political affihation claims that soâ€"andâ€"so has a and so on. Or that Waterk McKinnon. is a PC Herewith a column which includes some election stuff 1 couldnt get in last week because of deadlines and stuff. 1 include the observation that 1 have never wasted my vote. Although, with some of the people 1 helped elect, 1 carne pretâ€" ty damned close se lucker Seiling will have his hands fu couriars from the swill COn s " _ 'J' & “.. '." \\. 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