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And one of many crucial points to draw from this is: this should be an apolitical topic. If you call yourself a progressive, and you don't know what the Port Huron statement is; or anything about John L. Lewis; or indeed who John Dewey himself was--how can you successfully argue your position? There are thousands of young Democrats who voted for John Kerry and supported his stance against the Vietnam war who never heard of William Westmoreland or the Gulf of Tonkin incident.