Originally published on Europe’s World 1/12/2012
Author: Florian Pantazi
Regrettably, Western politics over the past 20 years have become less of a contest between competing political visions and more a question of which party is better qualified to implement the agenda of the global one percent (free markets, privatisation, salary reductions, tax minimisation,etc). Not surprisingly, in most Western nations the electorate has lost confidence in their political leaders.
A few days before Barack Obama’s re-election, Larry Summers published a Reuters commentary reassuring readers that the incumbent President deserved four more years in office, as during his first term he did not stray one bit from Bill Clinton’s political legacy. But were the Clinton years really as magical as all that ?
