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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (31376)11/10/2006 12:31:14 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 541548
 
I don't believe that the country is embracing that at all. I think the Great Revulsion is much more narrowly focused and that there's still a very strong conservative population who won't want to see a lot of liberal changes.

I'm trying to rethink all this and, at the moment, have concluded the notion that the US is "strongly conservative" is not quite right. It, of course, doesn't feel that way sitting in northern New Jersey surrounded by the NYC media. And I have no doubt it feels more that way in Dallas.

I'm beginning to think our politics are shifting from Iraq and the middle east, and a foreign policy (well, a domestic policy as well) agenda set by neoconservatives and evangelicals to one that starts with declining incomes for the middle class (a sort of Lou Dobbs agenda) and works it way out to globalization. That's why I posted the Friedman piece.

I expect to see a populist movement, in the negative sense of that word, spreading across both parties, as the hollowing out of American middle class jobs continues.

Thus, whichever party moves to address that "hollowing out" with the most credible response will do well in the longer term. Whether that's a nationalistic, protectionist message or a pro globalization with measures to address its effects on American workers definitely remains to be seen.

But one that ignores that effect will not do well.

Just my cup of tea.
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