http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/01/robert-reich-gets-it.html Finance, Economics and Markets Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/01/robert-reich-gets-it.html#comment-58174 LavrentiBeria Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:00 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/01/robert-reich-gets-it.html#comment-58174 Reich is right to see the so-called, "Mad-As-Hell" Party as having both right and left wings. What he fails to see is the very much in progress absorption of brownshirt, Tea Party activism by the Republican Party, to wit: The Brown victory in Massachusetts last Tuesday. There is simply no analogue to this phenomenon on the left. Left populism, its natural organizing vehicle, the unions, now a shrivelled and moribund vestige, is largely powerless. Apart from single issue advocacy, left populism is voiceless in this country. Its moment is yet to come. When the people discern that Tea Party fascism is in reality hyper-system rather than anti-system, that moment will have arrived. It is almost as though an authentic peoples' movement must first wait out a fascist impostor before being embraced. Reich is right to see the so-called, “Mad-As-Hell” Party as having both right and left wings. What he fails to see is the very much in progress absorption of brownshirt, Tea Party activism by the Republican Party, to wit: The Brown victory in Massachusetts last Tuesday. There is simply no analogue to this phenomenon on the left. Left populism, its natural organizing vehicle, the unions, now a shrivelled and moribund vestige, is largely powerless. Apart from single issue advocacy, left populism is voiceless in this country. Its moment is yet to come. When the people discern that Tea Party fascism is in reality hyper-system rather than anti-system, that moment will have arrived. It is almost as though an authentic peoples’ movement must first wait out a fascist impostor before being embraced.

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