But, As My Mother Used To Tell

Part Of The Failure Of The Corporate Media Is That They Don't Dig Out Stories Anymore. They Are Looking Down From The Top Floors. Media Work Used To Be Something That Was Down On The Ground Level. Now They Are Looking Out Of The Windows In The Top Suites, And They Don't Know What's Going On Out There. And Then There Are The Corporate Owners Who Don't Want This Stuff Reported Because If One Town Learns That The Next Town Has Defeated Wal-mart Or Stopped Sweatshop Goods, Then Other Towns Are Going To Want To Do The Same Thing.

Bush And The Corporate Kleptocrats Have Stomped On Too Many People And Left Too Many People Out Of The System, And Those People Are Now In Rebellion. It's Not Just Poor People They Are Holding Down But The Middle Class, As Well. I Have A Favorite Bumper Sticker I Saw On A Pickup Truck Last Year In Austin. It Said, "where Are We Going? And What Am I Doing In This Hand Basket?"

If You Don't Speak Out When It Matters, When Would It Matter To Speak Out?

There's Enormous Progressive Activism And, More Often Than Not, Success At The Grassroots Level - Everything From Living Wage Campaigns To Efforts To Finance Our Elections Are Having Terrific Success.

Most People Have A Sense That Things Have Gone Terribly Wrong. It's Not Just Some Giveaways To The Rich And The Rigging Of Regulatory Rules. It's Something Fundamental. The Very Idea Of America Is Being Stolen, And People Are Sensing That With A Tremor Within Their Hearts. They Are Taking Away This Core Notion Of The Common Good, This Idea That We Are All In It Together. They Are Diverting America From Our Historic Striving Towards Egalitarianism, Which Is Why America Exists. It's The Thing That Makes Us Unique In History. That's What People Are Sensing. We Are Going Down The Wrong Path.