Hartmann: If Obama Doesn't Want to Lead the Revolution - Young People Will

30 years ago - Ronald Reagan led a counter-revolution in America against the revolutions of the New Deal and the Great Society. It was a counter-revolution that ripped our economy from the hands of the middle class....and handed it off to the wealthiest corporate CEOs and Banksters in the world - letting America's oligarchs run the show. Now - thirty years later - we know how that counter-revolution turned out - and the backlash - or revolution - against Reagan, and subsequent Presidents who carried on his principles, is underway. The Streets of lower Manhattan are buzzing today with America's next generation of leaders - young people in their twenties - who will inevitably determine the direction of this nation - but first - must wrestle back power from Reagan's oligarchs who work on Wall Street.

This is the revolution that they - and even older Americans - hoped for when Barack Obama pledged to "fundamentally change the United States and the world" when he was elected President in 2008. But so far - this pledge has been unfulfilled. Turns out - Barack Obama was not that much of a revolutionary. But ultimately - it was never about him - it was about us - and in particular it was about the young people - because all revolutions - even Reagan's - don't originate from one man - they originate from the people - from the bottom up. From Jefferson to Lincoln - and from FDR to Reagan - these men who presided over great changes in America didn't create revolutions - they simply seized control of a nation pregnant with revolution and oversaw the transformation - and in some cases guided it. If President Obama discovers his inner revolutionary and steps forward with that voice and message and behavior, he'll get re-elected - and then he will have to carry forward with a revolution. On the other hand, if President Obama doesn't want to be a revolutionary - if he doesn't want to take on the banksters - if he doesn't take on and actually reverse Reagan's counter-revolution - that's fine - because the young people assembled in Manhattan - and all over the nation - will.
It's already started...

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[420gma]

@callouschristian Correct . I'm 62 and I hit the streets protesting bush and I'm hitting the streets again and this time the internet. And not just because of social security, I have two teenage grandson . I will not leave them a facist country. Not without a fight !!

[Cabronosidad]

"If President Obama discovers his inner revolutionary......" LOL - that's about as likely as Tiny Tim discovering his inner delta blue singer!

[drunkalfuzzyness]

this is going to happen in London very soon also :]

[idesofmarchUNIAEA]

у него нет мозга

means

this guy has no brain

[idesofmarchUNIAEA]

OH HE MAYA ROSEM!

[RainK9]

@melbatozt

VIVA!!! 

[EarthyBLU]

Fight the power. :D

[SakoTGrimes]

Maybe when this is all done, America will be America again.

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[magusn27]

Excellent!! Excellent!! Excellent!!! It will take the ordinary people of America to start the Revolution of getting the Criminal Bankers, Corporations and Government Leeches out of office and into a Prison cell! Perhaps those FEMA Camps will come in useful after all! Bring back the Death Penalty for High Treason!! Free the People and you Free the World!!