"[M]any people who voted for "Change" are instead getting a slicked up version of the status quo. That's likely to lead to some disappointment--a potentially productive disappointment. The sense of possibility tht Barack Obama has awakened is a very dangerous thing.
Toqueville [said] that the riskiest time for a bad regime is when it starts to reform itself. That's where our regime is right now, and it's a good time for us, whoever we are exactly, to go out and make it riskier. It's going to get easier to win recruits as the ranks of the disappointed swell."
Doug Henwood
Left Business Observer
Vol. 118
