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Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3

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Three months ago, I turned 30 years old. A month before my 30th birthday, I ended my ten-year career as an external union organizer, ending my decade-long quest of long hours, long months, long years finding pissed off workers and leading them to fight for and win labor unions at their workplaces. The labor movement got me started young. When I think back to how my political journey all started, I see mental vignettes with sometimes incredible detail. In no particular order, I see a thousand “Occupy Los Angeles” protestors attempting to enter the city’s ports, up and clashing against … Continue reading Thoughts on Being a Career Sell-Out, Part 3

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Psychological Explanation for “Sanders as Trigger”

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There are those on the Left who don’t like Bernie Sanders because they see him as too moderate and/or not a strategic way to engage with the working class. Those are also those on the Left who do like Bernie Sanders because they do see him as a strategic way to engage with the working class. I’m not talking about any of those people here: I’m talking about, there’s a minority on the Left who support Bernie Sanders out of respect, who’ve read some of the truly radical stuff he wrote in his 20s and 30s and so respect that … Continue reading Psychological Explanation for “Sanders as Trigger”