Most people who call themselves progressives or who protested the war in
Iraq didn’t really want fundamental change. They don’t have the stomach
to challenge the assumptions upon which American aggressions are based.
That is why they so quickly forgot their supposedly antiwar sentiments
and clung so fiercely to Barack Obama. They want to wrap themselves in
the flag or in being on a winning team but that means being a part of
America’s horrendous tale of conquest, race based terrorism and numerous
other oppressions.
-- Margaret Kimberley, "Who Is On The Left?" (Black Agenda Report).