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About Obama being too moderate:
It would seem that he will only be capable of trying to hold everything together as it slowly but surely disintegrates, but a part of me thinks he's only delaying the inevitable.
It doesn't take a reach to see how things could very well take a turn for the worse (even worse than 2008). And I fear that if it does, this will set the stage for a post-Obama populist reactionary, whether from the left or the right. However, even a slight understanding of the American political landscape would suggest that it would most likely come from the right.
Maybe the Tea Party is just a precursor.
Soak the rich? How about eat the rich?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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