Matt Taibbi – Taibblog – Stop Whining About Populist Anger! – True/Slant
We simply do not have a real functioning mechanism in American politics for converting public anger into tough government policy. The closest thing we have in that regard is the relationship between elected officials and the media: when TV news decides to flip out about something like the AIG bonuses for more than a day or two, we might sometimes see public officials do something about… something like the AIG bonuses. But that’s about it.
(Via trueslant.com )
Stop Whining About Populist Anger!
Matt Taibbi imagines a world where populist anger actually changed our government.
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