Why? do I like Robert Kennedy

Just what should our role be in this world? Can we actually make a difference? Here is a Robert Kennedy quote that explains it all. It gives us all hope.

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Day of Affirmation Address, University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966.

Why? the far right and left are similar

Ok, I like Dylan Ratigan and I really dislike Glen Beck. Beck is the classic example of a rabble rouser, a demagogue, a charlatan, a tub thumper etc. But listening to Ratigan today, I realized he has Glen Beck elements. Railing against the banks and the bailout, against Wall Street, against Congress. Hmm, tonal inflections, well at least a bit. I wonder where we would be if Herbert Hoover had been president the past few years? and the answer is?