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...CONVENTION had to represent a stirring success for Drinan and the ADA. People pledged time and contributed money. The crowd was boisterous. Still, when the cheers had subsided in the conference rooms of the National Education Association and all that was left were scattered pamphlets for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and photographs of Senators Paul Tsongas and Gary Hart, one was left with a feeling of emptiness...
...celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Franklin Roosevelt, the ADA failed to notice that the world of the 1980s is far different from that of the 1930s. Perhaps the oversight came because most of the leaders of the ADA got their political education in the days when liberals, labor and minorities all co-existed in the harmony of the New Deal. More fundamentally, the Democrats may have been trying to gloss over the differences that exist within the liberal segment of their party by appealing to a figure with whom even Reagan, ironically a former member...
...most disturbing thing about the ADA convention, however, was its failure to suggest original answers to pressing problems. It did not even address the questions that have surfaced in recent months about the roles of labor and minority groups in society. The creativity that could have been generated from a gathering of former socialists and neo-liberals never materialized...
IMAGES are of the essence in politics. The major strike against the liberals over the past year has been the impression they convey of antiquated figures living in the past. The ADA must face the 1980s reality that to succeed, the liberals will have to shed their image of rejuvenated New Dealers...
Roosevelt's contribution to the American political tradition was his willingness to experiment and be creative in addressing the pressing problems of his day. With just such an array of problems demanding response, the time is ripe for the ADA to reaffirm its place in American politics; once again it has the manpower and the money. If the ADA is to succeed, however, it must not hide behind the mantle of Roosevelt but take it proudly, not afraid to dip into the ranks of the intellectuals and come up with new proposals, whether neo-liberal or neo-socialist...