I am reading Robert Reich's book, Reason: Why LIBERALS Will Win The Battle For America; Vintage Books, 2005. Do not lose heart, the NeoCons or RadCons, as Reich calls them in the book, will fight fiercely; but we have history, intelligence, morality, and reason on our side. I had to share these quotes.
Reich, Robert; Reason: Why LIBERALS Will Win The Battle For America; Vintage Books, 2005, p. 6 & 9
p. 6; "History is on our side. The liberal ideas that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and germinated in American soil sought—for the first time in human history—to improve the well being of all people, not just the rich and the privileged. Liberalism has stood for an economic system that betters the lives of average working people and for a democracy that gives voice to the little guy. That liberal tradition animated American abolitionists of the nineteenth century who fought against slavery. It inspired suffragettes who demanded that women have the right to vote. And it motivated civil rights workers who put their lives on the line for equal rights."
p. 9; "What we do depends to a large extent on what you and others like you decide to do in the years ahead. Politics is the applied form of democracy. If we fail to act, we cede democracy to the radical conservatives, and in doing so we give them control over the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world."
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