I’m sitting in Jackson’s Flashback Video Cafe, listening to a live web broadcast from MoveOn.org. It’s the first politically-oriented event I’ve ever attended.
As rallies go, this one’s pretty quiet. As we listen to the live broadcast, folks sip Diet Coke and munch on sandwiches. When the commentators ask for volunteers to hold a “phone party” — an effort to register voters over the phone — no one raises a hand.
At least one guy attending the event mutters, “I coulda listened to this on the web at home.” It’s true. On the other hand, getting two dozen liberals together for anything in Jackson, MS, represents a kind of victory.
I’ve never been politically active. For that matter, I’ve never been very much interested in politics. In some ways, then, I’m the Republican Party’s worst nightmare — one of those silent, passive people who have been moved to action by the Bush administration’s aggression and decption.
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