Our Very Lives Depend On The Ethics

The Fault Line In American History Is Now A Dividing Line In The Election And It's Changing The Conversation.

There Is No More Important Struggle For American Democracy Than Ensuring A Diverse, Independent And Free Media. Free Press Is At The Heart Of That Struggle.

The Most Fundamental Liberal Failure Of The Current Era: The Failure To Embrace A Moral Vision Of America Based On The Transcendent Faith That Human Beings Are More Than The Sum Of Their Material Appetites, Our Country Is More Than An Economic Machine, And Freedom Is Not License But Responsibility.

Conservatives Or Better, Pro-corporate Apologists Hijacked The Vocabulary Of Jeffersonian Liberalism And Turned Words Like "progress," "opportunity," And "individualism" Into Tools For Making The Plunder Of America Sound Like Divine Right. This "degenerate And Unlovely Age," As One Historian Calls It, Exists In The Mind Of Karl Rove The Reputed Brain Of George W. Bush As The Seminal Age Of Inspiration For Politics And Governance Of America Today.

The Massive Upward Distribution Of Wealth Engineered By Our Political Class Over The Last Few Decades Has Solidified The Plutocratic Control Of The Rule-making Machinery In Washington And State Capitals.