Forty years - ten elections - since Nixon. During that time, two Democrats (three terms). Deregulation began under Carter. Clinton's most consistent effort was not to protect the environment or furrther social justice but to extend the market and destroy welfare. Neither ever inspired in me a fraction of the hope I felt, listening to Obama speak last night from my home town. After so many years - most of my life - a sense that, whatever happens, reason, decency and good will are at the helm, rather than stupidity, fanaticism, and greed.
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