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Sunday, October 09, 2011

No Exit?

Ezra Klein proposes that what was politically necessary to respond to the 2008 financial crisis was never even remotely politically feasible. Even if Klein is right about all of this, it seems to me that what matters more than that enough couldn't be done is that more could and should have been done and that more could and should be being done anyway. I also think that if it is true that efforts to solve our structural problems can't match up to the electoral calendar and political processes articulated by that calendar, then it only spotlights the need to ensure that the pain and suffering produced by our problems be distributed more fairly while the solutions slowly and convulsively proceed forward else the processes be deranged further still by the resulting discontent and disaffection of those otherwise in the best position to engage in progressive change. (Translation: soak the rich is never the wrong thing to do.)

1 comment:

jimf said...

> Translation: soak the rich is never the wrong thing to do.

Oh! You freeloader, you lousy mediocrity, you Ellsworth Toohey,
you -- you bedbug, you!