"We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free--market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations." -- Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine, September 2001, p1

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.