In “Yes, We Can?”—my recent Tikkun Daily blog post about the midterm elections—I argued that the response of progressive forces to the Republican victory and the depression it has generated should be to form ourselves into a “parallel universe” to provide ourselves with an independent base or ground on which to stand and recover from the unrequited hope we extended to Barack Obama in 2008. Some readers mistook this to mean that I was suggesting withdrawing from the existing political world into some kind of private space or respite from the existing system, when what I meant to say was that we now have to recover our collective social being from the dependency “we” developed on Barack Obama at the time of the euphoria of the 2008 election. I put “we” in quotes because the unity formed at the time of the election...
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