You Know In Your Heart That the Day of Real Resistance Is Coming — Yves Smith

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Comparison of today's resistance with the countercultural revolution and anti-war protests of the Sixties. Those began in 1964 with the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. They lasted over a decade, and included the civil rights movement as well.  On this analogy we are at the beginning of a decade long resistance that could transform the country in many ways. However, the resistance of the Sixties did not result in systemic change, and Ronald Reagan was elected president, beginning another conservative era, this time a neoliberal one. As you may have noticed, I am not posting on US partisan politics in this election cycle. I don't consider this issue partisan. It is a socio-economic phenomenon akin to a "spiritual awakening" that portends to affect the

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