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Are The Democrats Capable of Giving Us Anything?

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The rules of mainstream politics say "serious" candidates are only those mature and responsible folks who accept the essential underpinnings of our "free enterprise" economic system as sacrosanct. Of course, it's perfectly fine to talk about "change" and "reform," even of the "historic" kind, just so long as at the end of the day the people with the real money remain the people with the real money.

Unfortunately, a practical reformer like Barack Obama invariably faces the thorny reality that it's the people with the real money who are the source of most of society's real problems. The crazy talk from Republican's about Obama's "socialist" inclinations cannot hide the fact that the real "cash for clunkers" program turns out to be the ongoing bipartisan bailout of Wall Street by the American public.

After a year of hopeful expectation in the Obama presidency, a disappointed Huffington now concludes, "change is going to have to come from outside Washington." She's right about that. We need to rediscover what leaders of earlier movements for civil rights, peace in Vietnam, the eight-hour day, and the right of women to vote came to understand--the power of the street.

Now that's the kind of change we can really believe in.

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Mark T. Harris is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is a featured contributor to "The Flexible Writer," fourth edition, by Susanna Rich (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003). His blog, "Writer's Voice," can be found at www.HarrisMedia.org.

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