On The Republican Playing Field, Republicans Always

The Silent Majority Really Is A Liberal Majority, Even Though The Word Liberal Has Taken A Real Beating Over The Last 20 Years By Radical Conservatives.

We Are Born, We Grow Up, We Live Our Lives As Best We Can. If We Are Thoughtful We Are Good Parents And Good Partners. If We Are Wise We Strive For Integrity And Intimacy. If We Are Fortunate We Discover Love And Joy. If We Are Able, We Make The World A Little Better Than We Found It.

If You Give Up On Politics, You're Giving Up On Democracy. And If You Give Up On Democracy, You're Basically Saying To The Moneyed Interests, The Powerful People And Institutions Of Society, Take It All. That's A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Then We Give Up. Then We Are 100 Percent Plutocracy.

A Smaller Government Reflecting The Needs Of The Middle Class And Poor Is Superior To A Big Government Reflecting The Needs Of The Privileged And Powerful.

I Think That It's Difficult To Talk About Large Questions Of Economics Or Social Policy Without Understanding The Building Blocks Of Society. And Those Building Blocks Are Organizations, The People Who Run Them, And The People Who Work In Them.