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Politics : Obama Watch

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To: LTK007 who wrote (211)3/28/2009 2:56:11 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (2) of 290
 
From Populist Rage To Revolution
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

countercurrents.org

Americans clearly are capable of being outraged. Missing, however, is a sustained, vibrant demand for deep reforms of our political and government system. You hear a lot about populist rage these days, especially connected to the AIG bonus debacle. But populist rage as a reflection of class conflict and anger about our economic meltdown does not necessarily make a political revolution. The saddest thing about Obama winning the presidency was that his change message drained what might have been sufficient national energy for true revolutionary political reforms
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