The Occupy movement may have fizzled out early in this decade. But this writer in
The Atlantic argues that by
launching 'income inequality' onto the public agenda, Occupy activists have helped to shift the political center of gravity to the left. An interesting thesis with at least as much evidence as forecasting the demise of the 'Laurentian Elites'. Recent ballot box evidence seems to favor the analysis advanced by
The Atlantic's
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| Are North American leaders going with the flow? |
Peter Beinart, who goes on to say that police violence against blacks has produced another tectonic shift to the left in the U.S.
Only time will tell whether the newly refreshed Trudeau Liberals were rewarded for extinguishing the dark political arts of Stephen Harper or whether they're onto something bigger. If you follow the writer's argument, Justin Trudeau may be in the vanguard of a continental drift to the left.
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