Perhaps the sturdiest thread connecting this global backlash is a rejection of the logic of "extraordinary politics"--the phrase coined by Polish politician Leszek Balcerowicz to describe how, in a crisis, politicians can ignore legislative rules and rush through unpopular "reforms." Full Story »
Posted by Randy Morrow
As usual “The Nation” comes up with the goods. The article describes the growing worldwide backlash to the neocon technique of “extraordinary politics”, meaning that in any crisis–real or invented–politicians throw out the rules and push through unwanted programs and laws. (Sound familiar?) What the article doesn't mention (neither do American media) is that “vayan todos” (all of them must go) is also growing in Europe as their economies begin reaching critical mass.
If Obama’s is to bring America out of its crisis he must also effect changes in embedded corporate and government structures. But he’ll be helped by the growing “vayan todos” movement (all of them must go). Soon politicians who: “respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with an acceleration of that same discredited agenda (‘extraordinary politics’) will not survive to tell the tale.” Earth to Republicans in congress: take warning!