<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>"In a political arena in which Tea Partiers claim to defend freedom and centrist Democrats are called socialists, important concepts degenerate into slogans and slurs that confuse rather than clarify. By "radical," I mean a politics that goes to the root to critique the systems of power that create the injustice in the world and an agenda that offers policy proposals that can change those systems."</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/31">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/31</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Jensen is mostly right, and at least stops using the weasel-word "progressive." But he can't wrap his head around the idea that "centrist Democrats" are worse than Tea Partiers. He can't bring himself to advise his readers not to vote for either party. And he can't use the terms "class warfare" and "class struggle" to clarify our predicament (even though he clearly describes the reality). </DIV>
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<DIV>I'm just afraid that "radical" might become the new "progressive."</DIV>
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<DIV>DG</DIV></div><br>
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