A esperança é a base de toda a visão de esquerda

Here are six reasons to be optimistic in 2007
Hope is the basis of all leftish politics
por Johann Hari

Ho, ho, ho. As a columnist, it’s always easier to look out over the world’s agonies and offer your readers reasons to be miserable. “Lots of people lived free, happy lives today” is never much of a headline. So right now I could serve up a Boxing Day dish of global warming, nuclear proliferation, the implosion of Iraq, and the starvation of Africa with a sprig of parsley, and it would all be true and terrifying. But today – in our bloated post-Christmas glow – is a good day to remember that hope is the basis of all good leftish politics.

It’s no coincidence that the most liberal American President of the twentieth century – Franklin Roosevelt – declared “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”, while his most conservative successor, George W. Bush, seems determined to keep Americans in a constant state of amber-alert anxiety. So here is something I should do more often. Here is a bouquet of reasons to feel hope.

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