The United States Is A Safe Harbor.

I'm Quite Optimistic When It Comes To The Capacity Of Our People To Have An Honest Discussion About What's Really Going On. What Do You Think John Mccain's Candidacy Was About? And The Early Days Of Bill Bradley's Candidacy? People Are Hungry For A Genuine, No-spin Set Of Ideas And Truths. They Want Their Leaders To Tell It Like It Is. There Is A Great Demand For This. Politicians Continually Underestimate The Ability Of The American Public To Understand What's Happening To Them And What The Real Choices Are.

A Lot Of Attention Has Been Going To Social Values - Abortion, Gay Rights, Other Divisive Issues - But Economic Values Are Equally Important.

A Funny Thing Happened To The First Amendment On Its Way To The Public Forum. According To The Supreme Court, Money Is Now Speech And Corporations Are Now People. But When Real People Without Money Assemble To Express Their Dissatisfaction With The Political Consequences Of This, They’re Treated As Public Nuisances And Evicted.

There`s Sort Of A Chilling Effect On Non-profits And The Media And A Lot Of Other Places Because The Establishment Is So Powerful. That`s Where The Money Is.

The Only Sure Way To Stop Excessive Risk Taking On Wall Street So You Don't Risk Losing Your Job, Or Your Savings Or Your Home, Is To Put An End To The Excessive Economic And Political Power Of Wall Street By Busting Up The Big Banks.