It's not going to happen in a society that eschews science, hates education, doesn't want to know the difference between a fact and an opinion and has no remotely unifying concept of civic duty. THE JED BARTLET MOMENT ISN'T COMING. And a hell of a lot more people and history are to blame for that than Obama.
I fully expect that before this decade is through, we will see an angry Tea Party mob burning down a public library. You heard it here first.
What I don't get is how no one is connecting the dots between 30 years of dismantling unions, weakening workplace safety and environmental regulations, and the right wing media demonizing folks who don't want the next Bhopal, Chernobyl, and/or Love Canal to happen in their neighborhood, and the current clustermess in the Gulf.
Yes, the invisible hand of the free market will balance things out, but by punching the economically vulnerable in the throat...
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Date: 2010-06-17 03:41 pm (UTC)I fully expect that before this decade is through, we will see an angry Tea Party mob burning down a public library. You heard it here first.
What I don't get is how no one is connecting the dots between 30 years of dismantling unions, weakening workplace safety and environmental regulations, and the right wing media demonizing folks who don't want the next Bhopal, Chernobyl, and/or Love Canal to happen in their neighborhood, and the current clustermess in the Gulf.
Yes, the invisible hand of the free market will balance things out, but by punching the economically vulnerable in the throat...