So What Are Liberals Supposed to Do? Cry ‘Green Lantern’ and Let Slip the Dogs of Meh?

[unrepentant progress]

Yep. It's not Green Lanterism to point out the executive branch holds enormous power in this country, and it and the Democratic Party, aren't using to the advantage of the party base. Nor are people who, you know, actually want the Democratic Party to *be* the party of the people, empowering the right anymore than someone who criticizes the Israeli government necessarily antisemitic.

Whenever liberals and lefties are unhappy with the Obama Administration, there is a chorus of pundits and political scientists who raise the specter of Green Lanternism: the belief that the president, if he only wanted to do something, could (it sounds more like Peter Pan-ism, but I digress), that his failures are failures of will, not inability. ... I get why political scientists like to remind us of ‘Green Lanternism.’ They observe a phenomenon, think it’s relevant, and describe it. ... But I don’t get the pundits and left-leaning Mandarin class types. If you want to simultaneously establish your faux-worldliness and that you’re a putz, by all means, tell rank-and-file Democrats–some of whom need this crap to work–they’re deluding themselves. It probably pays well too. But what I would like to know O Great Pundit-ji, what is your plan for progress?

The link: http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2014/08/29/so-what-are-liberals-supposed-to-do-cry-green-lantern-and-let-slip-the-dogs-of-meh

[GeorgeGist]

1. First I've heard of it.

meh