Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, May 04, 2006
There's Hope?
In an article discussing the leftist swing in South America, this struck me:

Jorge Castaneda, a former foreign minister of Mexico and now a professor at New York University, argues that a populist resurgence in Latin America was inevitable with the concurrence of democratic elections in countries with still huge gaps between rich and poor. "The combination of inequality and democracy tends to cause a movement to the left everywhere," he wrote recently in Foreign Affairs.

I'm wondering how far away from this we are. Since Reagan, the middle class has been steadily eroding, the gap between rich and poor steadily widening. I guess when people get fed up, they will finally act but they are not fed up enough yet.
Written at 1:10 PM by Lynne.
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