30 years ago - Ronald Reagan led a counter-revolution in America against the revolutions of the New Deal and the Great Society. It was a counter-revolution that ripped our economy from the hands of the middle class....and handed it off to the wealthiest corporate CEOs and Banksters in the world - letting America's oligarchs run the show. Now - thirty years later - we know how that counter-revolution turned out - and the backlash - or revolution - against Reagan, and subsequent Presidents who carried on his principles, is underway. The Streets of lower Manhattan are buzzing today with America's next generation of leaders - young people in their twenties - who will inevitably determine the direction of this nation - but first - must wrestle back power from Reagan's oligarchs who work on Wall Street. This is the revolution that they - and even older Americans - hoped for when Barack Obama pledged to "fundamentally change the United States and the world" when he was elected President in 2008. But so far - this pledge has been unfulfilled. Turns out - Barack Obama was not that much of a revolutionary. But ultimately - it was never about him - it was about us - and in particular it was about the young people - because all revolutions - even Reagan's - don't originate from one man - they originate from the people - from the bottom up. From Jefferson to Lincoln - and from FDR to Reagan - these men who presided over great changes in America didn't create revolutions - they simply ...

Thom Hartmann's crazy alert

Tonya Lewis Lee, Office of Minority Health "Healthy Baby Begins With You" campaign joins Thom Hartmann. Tonya Lewis Lee (Spike Lee's wife) tells Thom that racism is responsible for the high African American infant mortality & something needs to be done. Should the United States - the wealthiest nation on the planet - have such a high rate of infant mortality?

Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com joins Thom. The failure to negotiate on Capitol Hill already reveals the stubborn side of the Republican party... but the recent crowd reactions at the GOP debates shows the heartless side of supporters! So which is worse...the guys in office, or the ones who vote for them?