10 Ideas for 2008
[Updated.]
This is the post of the day. Stop. Do not pass go. Go immediately to read 10 Ideas for 2008 from Pericles at Dailykos. For those who need further encouragement, I've posted a summary below, grouping them by which of our Core Values each is part of -- but quit messing around here, go read it all.
What ideas will liberal candidates be able to campaign on in 2008? The ones we start developing and promoting now. I have ten suggestions.
Protcting Freedom:
1. 9/11 didn't change everything. What didn't 9/11 change? Lots of things. The United States still needs allies. The Geneva Convention still makes sense. Imprisoning people without trials is still tyranny. Torture is still wrong. You still need to double-check your intelligence before you start shooting people. Stuff like that. If we take those issues one by one, and let the Right respond with "9/11 changed everything"-- we're going to lose.
3. America must be a leader in the world.
7. Free citizens must have courage. Today, Americans are afraid of terrorism, and so our freedom is slipping away. When George Bush says, "We're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here," his implicit message is that ordinary citizens don't have to be brave -- that's what we hire professional soldiers for. In the Right's vision, America only needs enough courageous citizens to staff the armed forces.
Liberals know the truth: that very very many Americans are courageous. And our courage is called for now.
Economic Progress:
5. Globalization belongs to us. [Quoting Howard Dean] "Globalization is here to stay whether we like it or not, but the rules for globalization are not. Both NAFTA and the WTO help large multinational corporations but ignore the needs for the people who work for them. In order to make globalization work we also have to globalize worker protection, labor rights, environmental rights and human rights. Free trade won't work under the present circumstances." The model for liberal globalization is the European Union.
6. Capitalism belongs to us.Capitalism does not mean corporatism. (According to Mussolini, fascism does.) Due to a mistake the Supreme Court made in 1886 - damn those activist judges! - corporations were declared "persons" and given the protection of the Bill of Rights. That's why it's so hard to get them under control. The First Amendment protects their political contributions, for example, while their right to privacy limits how much data the government can force them to reveal. (God help us if they ever start testing the limits of their right to bear arms.) Sadly, it will take a constitutional amendment to undo this, and we should get right on it.
Here he leaves out three important points: as Democrats we stand against (1) crony capitalism, which allows incompetent corporate executives like Ken Lay and George Bush to benefit at the expense of the owners and investors whose money they manage (2) special purpose legislation written by industry lobbyists, often to allow monopolies to stay in place (monopolies are a way of avoiding competition: when the government helps a monopoly stay in place, they are being anticapitalist) (3) lax environmental legislation that allows businesses save money by vandalizing our air and water, thereby stealing from the rest of us (because this is stealing, it is not only an economic but also a moral issue).
If we look deeply into the roots of capitalism, we can understand it better than the conservatives do and find a way to make it our own.
8. Protect the Commons. Over the past few decades, the Right has taken the word common out of common political usage. We no longer talk about the common good, for example. Public property doesn't belong to us, it belongs to nobody.
I might add that communities of all sizes -- our neighborhoods, our churches, our states, America as a whole -- share common goods and common property that we want to protect. Of Pericles' 10 excellent points, this is probably the one that is closest to the heart of the Democratic coalition
If you want a government that will take good care of all of your property, public as well as private, then you want a liberal government.
9. America is worth paying for. But if the government really belongs to us, then taxes just move our money from one account to another. From our personal accounts we can buy personal goods; from our common account we can buy common goods. If that notion sounds strange, think about stockholders and corporations. When a corporation retains its earnings for future investment rather than paying them out as dividends, the stockholders don't scream about theft. The corporation just owns that money for them; as long as it manages the money well, the stockholders are happy.
Taxes are your fair share of the expense of keeping the country going. And a good country is worth paying for. People who try to get out of paying taxes are denigrating our country. They're saying that America is not worth paying for. They are unpatriotic.
A progressive tax system recognizes the obvious fact that the rich gain the most from America; they should pay the most to keep it going.
Responsibility and Moral Values:
2. Morality is not sex. Practice this line: "You keep saying 'morality' but really you're just talking about sex." When Jesus listed the admission standards for Christians to get into Heaven (Matthew 25), not one of them concerned sex. The key idea was "Who did you help?" Letting the working poor get priced out of the health care system is immoral. Trumping up bogus charges about WMD and terrorism in order to start a war is immoral.
4. The Religious Right are Pharisees. Christianity belongs to us. All through the gospels, Jesus is being heckled by the Pharisees, a group that promoted a strict interpretation of Mosaic Law. Again and again, Jesus sides with the spirit of the law against the Pharisees' loyalty to the letter of the law. When Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and their ilk get going, you don't hear much about compassion and common sense; but you hear a lot about the letter of the law. That's the Pharisee position; it's not Christian.
Does reclaiming Christianity mean that the Left needs to throw out all the Jews and atheists? Of course not. It also doesn't mean that non-Christian liberals should give lip service to a religion they don't believe. But we need to recognize that Jesus is a cultural icon in this country, and he is on our side. When the Right claims that Jesus is on their side, we need to be able to argue convincingly that they are wrong. That means getting educated about the Bible and learning how to speak its language comfortably -- as Kerry could not. (Check out Forrester Church's God and Other Famous Liberals, John Shelby Spong's Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, or John Buehrens' Understanding the Bible.) You don't have to be black to quote Martin Luther King, you don't have to be Hindu to quote Mahatma Gandhi, and you don't have to be Christian to quote Jesus.
10. Democracy means trusting the people.
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