Elizabeth Warren and liberal narrative

Elizabeth Warren speaks with voters as the campaign after announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Framingham, Massachusetts, September 14, 2011.

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I the Democrats – and Obama, especially – have recognized the story of Republicans and Tea Party in employment, the deficit, stimulus spending, and almost on health. The history of politics in this country has changed dramatically to the right.

This is not a big surprise. Recessions are good for the deficit hawks, employers and nationalist movements. The left must find some kind of retirement. However, some liberal leaders in this country have done a great job with his back and narrative to articulate a progressive vision of society, the problem of employment, and so on. Latest Obama “populist ” Rhetoric has “an output short to a centrist who supports almost all the history of what was wrong with his political opponents.

Storytelling is important in politics as “a populist met back when there was no such thing as a left-populist movement in America. The fact that this story has failed in recent years has been a concern.

So when

by Elizabeth Warren discredit the allegations of “class struggle” I was pleasantly surprised:

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Transcript

and thoughts after the jump:

“I heard all that, you know,” Well, that class struggle is what it is n � No person in this country. who have enriched themselves. Nobody.

“We have built a factory there? Good for you. But let me be clear: it moved its products to market roads in the rest of us pay, which hired workers in the rest pay us to educate, they were safe in his factory because of the police forces and fire than the rest of us pay. You do not have to worry about marauding bands who come to take everything in his factory, and hire someone to protect against this, thanks to the rest of us.

“Look, he built a factory and turned into something terrible or a great idea? God bless you . Keep a large piece of it. But part of the social contract underlying is to take a piece of this and please return the boy next door who comes. “

In other words, here is a progressive political that can translate a message from a progressive and liberal narrative of what went wrong in ordinary language can understand. This is the message that many liberals have been hoping Obama would do for years.

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addition, it is exactly the kind of liberal point of must to deal with people like Paul Ryan, who claim that any increase in taxes on the wealthy is “class struggle”. As Steve said, “if more Democrats were able to do in the case of the social contract underlying the effectiveness, our discourse would be much less stupefying.”