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Posted on 10/17/2011 9:08:16 AM PDT by Nachum
Hat tip to Chris Moody for this clip. This comes from a film called Early Warnings. It shows a 1979 protest in New York on the 50th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. See if the vibe isn’t familiar:
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Maybe history will repeat itself.
Think about who won the presidency in a landslide the following year??
Indeed. Who is that candidate now?
1979 was also at the tail end of a long period where people felt economically brutalized. Political opinions tend to radicalize under such conditions. Fortunately Reagan was able to appeal to our better angels of our American nature.
Is there someone on the horizon capable of doing that today? And do we still have enough people in our population willing to listen? We are about to find out.
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