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Arianna Huffington: ‘Hope’ Has Been a Bust, It’s Time for Hope 2.0

Posted by ralph on January 18, 2010

Yes We Can'tArianna Huffington writes on the Huffington Post:

On the eve of the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration, it’s become painfully obvious that elected officials are not going to save us. The 2008 election was all about “Hope.” But Hope is simply not cutting it.

What we need is Hope 2.0: the realization that our system is too broken to be fixed by politicians, however well intentioned — that change is going to have to come from outside Washington.

This realization is especially resonant as we celebrate Dr. King, whose life and work demonstrate the vital importance of social movements in bringing about change. Indeed, King showed that no real change can be accomplished without a movement demanding it.

As Frederick Douglass put it: “Power never concedes anything without a demand; it never has and it never will.”

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    No matter what kind – monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, socialist state – government is just an operating system designed to redistribute wealth. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. Obama never was, or could have ever been, anything more than the shiniest cog in the extortion machine.

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    Fuck hope 2.0. We need internet 2.0.

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  • Anarchon414

    So we find out that he is just another politician making campaign promises and not keeping them. Business as usual for the government. What is surprising is that people still fall for these politicians lies. I mean, how gullible can you get America? Its almost like the people in America like being lied to…

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