Why Conservatives Will Miss ACORN

[babsbunny]

Why Conservatives Will Miss ACORN

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=why_conservatives_will_miss_acorn

The news that the embattled community-organizing group will restructure has the right in mourning -- after all, the organization provided the perfect locus for conservative panic.


Adam Serwer | February 25, 2010

On Monday, news broke that the embattled community-organizing group ACORN had "dissolved as a national structure," with individual chapters severing their relationship to one another. It turned out not to be true -- ACORN still exists as a national organization, but several of its large state chapters, including the ones in New York, Massachusetts, and California, have become independent organizations.

"It's no secret that we've been weakened by a whole series of right-wing attacks that have made it hard for us to do work and get funding," National ACORN spokesperson Kevin Whelan told the Prospect on Monday. "So organizers and leaders are having to figure out how to carry out fighting foreclosures organizing their communities." Whelan added that while the new organization will be staffed with former ACORN people, "there is no formal or structural relationship ? between ACORN and these new organizations that have been announced."

[OHdem10]

1. Tonight Fox News indicates they intend to follow them under their

new names.

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2. Don't underestimate these jerks

Remember they ginned up a controversy over Obama ordering orange juice instead of coffee with his breakfast. If they want their nervous-nelly followers to wet their pants en masse, they'll find something. Yeah, ACORN's been a convenient stalking horse, particularly in connection with the scary specter of non-white people participating in the system, but they'll just conjure up a new one. Before ACORN there was ANSWER. Before that it was Code Pink. Before that it was the ACLU. Before that . . . well, you get the idea. Any organization that works for an expansion of the system to work for more than just them scare the pee-doodle out of them. They imagine rights and privileges as a zero sum game. If black people or poor people or anyone else gets to enjoy the blessings of freedom and liberty, that must mean there's less freedom and liberty available for them, so it must be stopped.

If they've ruined ACORN, and it appears they've damaged it pretty severely, they'll just create another bogey to be a-scairt of. And their idiot minions will dutifully wet themselves every time it's mentioned.