Queer Gnosis

by Troy Williams

I was lamenting on Facebook yesterday how frustrated I am that the Left can’t pull together their own populist response to the Tea Baggers and the corporate ownership of the Democrats. The Tea Bag phenom is fascinating to me.  How can a group of disadvantaged Americans be so engaged to work against their own self-interest?  Sure, I have many problems with Obama — but a socialist he is not!  In fact, he’s proven himself to be quite adept at making big corporations happy at the expense of our national well-being.  And yet this new populist right wing that is comprised of Birthers, Oathkeepers and wingnuts are willing to spend hours watching FOX News, denying climate change and denouncing health reform as a Nazi style plot.  And where is the Left?  We have conceded to centrist “corporatist” Democrats.  As Bill Maher keeps saying, we have no progressive left in this country.

That is until now!  Behold, my friend Lisa Duggan from NYU has already stirred up the grassroots by forming the Cocktail Party! Their emerging platform includes:

*Nationalize the banks
*Soak the Rich with High Taxes
*Free public education through college for all
*Free day care for elders and children
*National health care
*Universal accessibility
*Abolish all student loan, credit card and mortgage debt
*Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, shift resources to the Arts, and to an independent Haiti
*Abolish marriage

Check out Bullybloggers for the developing platform RIGHT HERE!

Cocktails anyone?