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Words to live byThe way to fight this 'moving forward' frame is not to repeat it--that's the first step. The problem is, Americans want to talk about and correct all the problems the President created and we are in right now. And if we talk about 'moving forward' and looking up the road and turning points--we get distracted from the present. To reframe, we should force the debate to use a new phrase: This phrase focuses the discussion in Iraq, on immigration policy, on oil policy, on hurricane preparedness--focuses attention on the real concern: a government that fails to act in the face of huge problems. Instant CongressSubscribe Buttons                    | ||
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No, of course not. No one has evern previously suggested either Hillary or Lieberman were populists. Never heard such a suggestion before. And, of course, suggesting that Lenin was some great populist whose legacy was spoiled by his successors seems quite odd given the fact that Lenin, once in power, created the Cheka (Soviet secret police) and imposed strict state control over the newspapers. When workers formed their own independent (non Bolshevik) soviets, Lenin's secret police broke them up. He brutally killed off any and all non-Bolshevik opposition (even non-Bolshevik communist) and any and all rivals within the Bolksheviks. After an assassination attempt, Lenin unleashed Stalin's "Red Terror" and was openly supportive of "mass terror against enemies of the revolution." Lenin himself set up the system that became the Gulags. Some populist.