and she isn’t afraid of the cold. If Jeffrey D Sachs is right (and I hope he is) in his Opinion piece The New Progressive Movement in the NY Times, we are at the dawn of a new era in America.
We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era, a period that has culminated in soaring income for the top 1 percent and crushing unemployment or income stagnation for much of the rest. The overarching challenge of the coming years is to restore prosperity and power for the 99 percent…Finally, the new progressive era will need a fresh and gutsy generation of candidates to seek election victories not through wealthy campaign financiers but through free social media. A new generation of politicians will prove that they can win on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blog sites, rather than with corporate-financed TV ads. By lowering the cost of political campaigning, the free social media can liberate Washington from the current state of endemic corruption. And the candidates that turn down large campaign checks, political action committees, Super PACs and bundlers will be well positioned to call out their opponents who are on the corporate take.
Occupy Wall Street is only the beginning. We are sick and we are tired of corporate greed, deregulation, political posturing and income inequality. So for those who think the cold weather will bring an end to the “occupy” protests…it may take down a few tents, but I’m guessing this is about more than a few tents.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
...and Herman Cain, the Arab Spring isn’t out of hand, the ingredients in your burgers and pizza are.
