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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (304627)5/11/2009 3:30:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll1 Recommendation   of 793926
 
As a former community organizer, Obama understands that reforms do not come from the top down; in the past, they arose because moderate elites made concessions to the move¬ments of the unemployed and the CIO in the 1930s and to the civil rights, anti-war, women’s, and welfare rights movements of the 1960s. But while the December sit-down at Republic Windows indicates that a new wave of labor militancy could be in the offing, the strength of the labor movement and the Left is even weaker than they were in 1932, when an econom¬ic crisis still demobilized workers fearing losing their jobs if they rocked the boat. Nor does there exist the degree of social mobilization within excluded communities of color parallel to the vigor of the civil rights movement of 1960....
Thus, a “realigned” new Democratic majority can only be built if the Obama administration enacts a legislative agenda that reconstructs a new “productive” egalitarian economy.

So with actual socialist movements lacking, it's Obama's responsibility to forcibly create a new "productive" egalitarian economy.

Glad to see he puts "productive" in quotes.

So much for change coming from below. If the stupid people don't know what they want, Obama will tell them!
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