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NAFTA became a lightning rod for complaints about globalization, capitalism, and the decline of organized labor.
Ahn has already become a lightning rod for all of the country's anti-Park and anti-President Lee Myun-bak forces, attracting young people as well.
Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post-1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world's developmental hopes.