It feels to me like the last gasp of a kind of postmodern intellectual brand of radicalism, with its roots in 68. America has its own radicalism and its own baby boomer spokesfigures regurgitating the ideals of their 60s youth (Amy Goodman, etc) but it also has the likes of the Tea Party and the whole survivalist thing, which in its way is just as counter-cultural, if a bit silly.
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