Probably the most remarkable thing about the Obama campaign has been its ability to commandeer the reform/change sentiment and steer it (so far) successfully. A hard thing to do.
The more predictably successful alternative is the golden days approach where wannabe leaders hearken back to “the good ol’days” sometime in the near distant past stirring emotions of lost innocence. Regan did this well but it goes back way further, to Homer (the poet) and Hammurabi.
But this hope for change is something unique that doesn’t really come around much. Here indy producer Barbara Bernstein remembers the last time it occurred on a major scale when she was an activist in 1968. She compares the feeling back then to today.
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