On my last post, since we are being sold a lot of lofty talk about “Change” and “social justice” without much in the way of particulars, I think the following is worth emphasizing:
Listen to what Ayers says, and how admirable and desirable it sounds: “Participatory democracy, by contrast, requires free people coming together, voluntarily as equals who are capable of both self-realization and, at the same time, full participation in a shared political and economic life.”
Now, in concrete terms, what does he have in mind by this? The Venezuela of Hugo Chavez.