[2ndDivisionVet]

Read the cooments, as well. MrTeacup is a dangerous individual and typical Alinsky follower.

[ExTexasRedhead]

This movement is going to clean the traitors out of the US Congress. Count on it!

[Pearls Before Swine]

To understand how radical the author is, you need only read this quote from the article: "This is why progressives are so disillusioned by President Obama. He was never anything other than a centrist Democrat. "

[GunRunner]

And even in health care, we’d end up cutting everyone’s costs by commuting less, smoking less, landscaping less, and, yes, hating less.

Can someone explain this sentence to me? What does landscaping have to do with health care?

[Grunthor]

I was reading some of the comments and one thing I would have to point out to those communists is....I’ve never ONCE in my life received a paycheck from a poor person.

[Talisker]

Whoa! - this is sea-change thinking from a radical Leftist.

What’s the Left without “movements”? Leftist movements ARE the collectivist mechanism.

Not that I trust the guy as much as I can throw him. But at first glance, it seems that something serious is rupturing here.

A needle indicating an earthquake.

[GeronL]

This person does live on planet Earth

[oldbrowser]

And it’s certainly still possible that government could develop the single payer system that pretty much everybody knows deep down would bring the best of industrial health care to the most people.

But just as we are learning that industrially produced food is not ultimately nutritious, a top-down, passionately executed, and highly branded movement is not ultimately effective.

These two sentence follow one another in this piece. To me they seem to contradict each other. So which is it? Effective or not effective?

[GeronL]

But the problem is not simply that we’ve lost the ability to distinguish between real movements and cynically concocted fake ones. It’s that they are functionally indistinguishable.

Thats easy, if they are wearing the same shirts and carrying the signs and riding in the same buses and paid through ads on Craigslist then they are probably fake.

but then again he probably thinks the only real movements are the ones that are organized from the top down.

[Nonstatist]

Cripes, this blather gives me a headache. And the comments are no better..

[Buckeye McFrog]

he appears to be calling for a straight, point-of-the-gun Socialist dictatorship...scary.

[Oldpuppymax]

TRANSLATION: The dumb-ass public is SOOOO STUPID, they were taken in by marketing that was even MORE SLICK than the crap WE IN THE LEFT always pull!!! In other words, nothing is REAL unless it is brought to you be a leftist LIKE ME!!

[jveritas]

The failure of a movement that could rightly claim over 70 percent public acceptance just a month ago

Another bogus statistic and a lie by the Left.

[Lou Budvis]

“We’d more effectively pull the rug out from under a corrupt financial sector by simply investing in one another’s businesses—our own town restaurants and drug stores—instead of outsourcing our retirement savings to Wall Street. We could more easily re-invent public schools by volunteering our time to them directly, instead of sending our kids to private schools while we sign petitions for government to re-prioritize. And even in health care, we’d end up cutting everyone’s costs by commuting less, smoking less, landscaping less, and, yes, hating less.”

I don’t know what “hating less” means here, but I agree that if libs were actually serious about “change” they could do more by changing their own lives instead of trying to change everyone else’s.