pondělí 5. listopadu 2012

Důležité volby?

Anne Applebaum sice pochybuje, ale kovaní straníci nikoliv...

Za republikány Krauthammer, který letošní prezidentské volby nazývá nejdůležitějšími od roku 1980. Obama dle něj demontuje konzervativní revoluci Reagana a buduje welfare state. "Reagan was an ideological inflection point, ending a 50-year liberal ascendancy and beginning a 30-year conservative ascendancy... Obama enacted liberalism’s holy grail: the nationalization of health care. His $830 billion stimulus, by far the largest spending bill in U.S. history, massively injected government into the free market — lavishing immense amounts of tax dollars on favored companies and industries in a naked display of industrial policy... An Obama second term means that the movement toward European-style social democracy continues, in part by legislation, in part by executive decree."

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Za demokraty E. J. Dionne Jr., který souboj dokonce přirovnává k boji mezi historickou epochou zastávanou zaslepenými zpátečnickými republikány a Tea Party na jedné straně a demokraty 21. století na straně druhé. "And so, beneath the attacks, the counterattacks, and the billions invested by small numbers of the very rich to sway the undecided, we face a choice on Tuesday that is worthy of a great democracy. My hunch is that the country will not go backward, because that’s not what Americans do."

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