He says when he was living in his car, he thought the income disparity was unfair and studied communism seriously. But that the Russian revolution failed and the peasants basically just wanted to kill rich people. So let’s tax them now instead.
But that doesn’t get at root causes, does it? Or really solve anything. It’s illuminating that the elites are definitely feeling the heat from the populist upsurge. He’s right in that mob violence solves nothing.
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Bob, whats scares me is that the populist mob may replca ethe current system with Palin types.
That’s why the left needs to get active with populism. Now. I”ll be blogging a lot about thiis in the coming months.