[Peace-discuss] Faux liberal reformers

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

http://www.truth-out.org/movement-too-big-fail/1318858329

'...There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares,  
parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state  
will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The  
faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the  
rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this  
movement because they fear becoming irrelevant. Union leaders, who  
pull down salaries five times that of the rank and file as they  
bargain away rights and benefits, know the foundations are shaking. So  
do Democratic politicians from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi. So do the  
array of “liberal” groups and institutions, including the press, that  
have worked to funnel discontented voters back into the swamp of  
electoral politics and mocked those who called for profound structural  
reform...'
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