Re: Re: Re: Re: US Consumer Confidence index surges

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

> Also, Doug, doesn't it get a little tiring making the same point
> (that leftist hope for bad times) over and over again?

No more tiring than it gets to see leftists making the same point
over and over again. It's stunning how this list comes alive at a
hint of panic. Michael wants PEN-L to be relevant to political
activists, but disaster-sniffing doesn't seem to be the way to go
about it.

Look, for much of the world, "disaster" is the norm. That hasn't
worked to the left's advantage in too many places, at least not yet.
For the more comfortable part of the world, disaster has rarely
worked to the left's advantage either. In the light of that, there's
something pathological and self-marginalizing about getting excited
when the Dow loses 300 points - or dredging up a sucker rally from
1930 as a precedent on a day when it's up 200. Or with an alleged
progressive wishing mass impoverishment on the American working
class. Or with yet another saying it's all hopeless here, because the
real action is in Mexico - even though the holder of that point of
view is comfortably situated in the comfortable part of the world.

The hell with it. I'll shut up for a long while.

Doug