Robert Mangabeira Unger - ‘Beyond Obama’
Roberto Unger, who has been a tenured professor at Harvard Law School since 1976 and taught Barack Obama — a student in his ‘Reinventing Democracy’ class — says the president ‘has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.’
‘His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.’
‘He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.’
‘He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.’
‘He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice.’
‘He has reduced justice to charity.’
‘He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.’
‘He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle.’