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12:41 pm, October 24th, 2009 - 5 comments
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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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God, we need a Jon Stewart here.
No we don’t!
Yes, he is humourous, but essentially he simply reiterates the status quo by being decidedly orthodox. And that is not something we need.
He’s good sometimes. When the writes went on strike he was horrid.
How weird that the best newsman in the US is a comedian.
Well, it wouldn’t be so weird if the best senator of the new intake wasn’t also a comedian, who’s already proved himself more competent than most of the people there.
What does it say about our society when the only people capable of being truly serious are comedians, and the people claiming to be truly serious are a joke?
Al Franken is brilliant, did you see him shooting down that republican who thought public healthcare would increase healthcare-related bankruptcies? (excuse my spelling).