Robert Kuttner: The Left Edge of the Possible
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 28th, 2011 5:41 am by HL
Robert Kuttner: The Left Edge of the Possible
The American political center has shifted further to the right, while the twin assault on the good society by the private financial system and the organized right has become more intense. It is the politics that pass for mainstream conventional wisdom that are extreme — in the sense of extremely unhelpful. We need to take back our politics, so that what is sensible is also possible. Maybe, just maybe, events in Madison and elsewhere are the beginning of that process.
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