Are radical ideas that radical?
Published: 22 March, 2009, 08:46
Edited: 30 December, 2009, 10:46
TAGS: Crisis Chronicle, The Resident, USA
For the past decade Texas Congressman Ron Paul has been a radical voice warning that the US economy is about to collapse. He's been marginalized and even ridiculed, though. Why are people afraid to hear radical ideas?
American journalist Lori Harfenist – known as The Resident – asks New Yorkers whether it is time to start listening to radical thinkers and why, if so…
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Our current leader is racical. It will require radical thinkers to fix the current mess in America. Obama made many promises to us that were not kept. I fear to think what America will be at the end of his term. We have seen what has happened after only one year. There is a fine line between genious and insane; and Obama is neither. Our next leader needs to be a radical genious with experience and strength. Yes, I think it's time to start considering some of the radical ideas if the thinker is stable.