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JackRiddler

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10. "Here" is exactly where I expect resistance to OWS...
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 07:58 PM
Feb 2012

Last edited Fri Feb 3, 2012, 10:48 AM - Edit history (1)

from people who are in tune with establishment liberalism, leader-follower dynamics, and conventional party politics; who are constantly downplaying systemic corruption and the long emergency we find ourselves in; and who see OWS as a threat or as nothing more than a voting clientele that should obediently get in line.

All I know right now in person is New York. On the street and this winter in the meeting halls, it's growing and gearing up...

And Fukuyama is little more than a glorified pundit, interested above all in framing his own thoughts as Very Important. You'd think Mr. End of History would have learned some humility, but as a professional requirement he can never do that.

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