So, last night, Tea Party types won big when Christine O’Donnell took the Republican party nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Delaware. That might not work out so well for them, of course, but I’m more interested in something she said during her victory speech: Don’t ever underestimate the power of We the People! […]
And let’s throw in a fourth “freedom” for good measure. If liberals and progressives want to have any chance of creating long-term and significant change, we need a new approach to our rhetoric, and a great place to start is to reclaim the word “freedom”. Freedom is fundamental to the American identity and elicits a […]
Here’s a great post on OpenLeft making a point I’ve thought of many times. Whenever you hear a conservative going on about how “the government” is going to do this or that, it’s important to remember that, in America, we are the government! “The government” is all of us, working together, to achieve common purposes […]
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