What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
This notion that borders wouldn’t matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Creating jobs for your country’s workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country’s companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country’s workers fit into the global economy. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they’re losing out to the Islamists, who’ve built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government – which is great for the elites. They don’t need the government. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Slavery is America’s original sin and was the great global injustice of that age. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
