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 