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Don't skip this DU article!: Conan the Populist?

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A very good read.

September 6, 2003
By Craig Roberts

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It seems to me the only people for whom Schwarzenegger is a true voice is that group of people we call idiots. Schwarzenegger can legitimately be seen as the voice of a people who don't take their responsibilities as citizens or the fiscal plight of California seriously. A people who don't distinguish between real heroes and movie heroes. Who demand politics be entertaining before they are willing to participate. A pathetically infantile and ignorant people, wholly undeserving of the glorious political traditions and institutions they have inherited.

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