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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Dale Baker1/7/2012 4:15:14 PM
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Matt Miller: "While the Tea Party’s energy is anti-elitist, Fukuyama argues, its members perversely end up supporting conservatives who do the bidding of the financial mavens Tea Partyers claim to loathe. And those conservatives who do sound a different note — notably Rick Santorum, whose empathy for and allegiance to everyday workers is his distinguishing trait — don’t have promising policy responses. "

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"As things stand, the showdown between the GOP’s call for nostalgia and the Democrat’s call for resentment won’t get us where we need to go. It’s our perennial problem: The symbols and values the two parties manipulate to get to 50 percent plus one have nothing to do with developing real answers to our challenges. We need a “ideologically androgynous” agenda to ensure opportunity and security in a global age, and we need to update our institutions and reallocate resources to do this. This will take, among other things, a full-tilt assault on the inefficient health-care and higher-education “industrial complexes” that increasingly put the ingredients of middle class life out of reach of millions with stagnant incomes and limited prospects. It will also take more redistribution, not less.

No one’s saying this is easy to devise or sell. But no one running for president is even trying to mobilize the country around ideas on a scale that match these challenges."
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