None of the following thoughts originated with me. I’m just helping curate.
- Fiscal responsibility is a progressive position.
- Conservative, liberal, progressive, radical…these are labels powerful people use to keep people with most interests in common apart. In reality, most voters have no interest in this kind of politics, no use for these kind of names, no time for these games, waning patience for these kind of political “ethics.”
- Members of the middle class tend to identify with the upper class because they see upward mobility as reachable and good. That’s fine, except when it keeps us from also identifying with the economic underclass from which most of us came, part of which most of us could still easily be, and to which we have human, civic, moral and spiritual responsibilities, as they have also to us. As we all have to each other.
- Prudence is not a reactionary or cautious position. It’s knowing the good and know how to bring it about and then doing it. (Aristotle)
- We have more similarities than differences.
- Citizens of different nations have more in common with each other than they do with their own ruling classes.
- Information wants to be free, and so do people.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….
Chris Cocca 
” Citizens of different nations…..” – I have found this to be astonishingly true.
This message should be presented as an info-graphic to thwart the diluting down copy-pasters.
that’s a good idea.
Right on, Chris. You should check out M Zweig’s “Six Points on Class.” He creates an interesting portrait of the class system in the US, basically noting that the vast majority are in the middle, but identify with either the upper or lower class based upon their career type. There are careers that benefit the upper class (corp accountants, as just one example) and those who benefit the lower class (such as social workers). Then he writes about how the diminishing class lines are being drawn based upon those identifications, with the conditions worsening for lower-identifying mid income and increasing for upper-identifying mid income. Wisconson provide an obvious example of this. Anyway, not sure if you agree, but it’s an interesting take nonetheless.
I’ll definitely check that out. Thanks, Jay, for sharing!