The Power of Progress
Center for American Progress Supreme Leader John Podesta has a new book out called The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. I’m not really sure progressives did save our climate at any point in the past, but why quibble about titles? To help promote the book, he’s got a blog post up at Think Progress, an excerpt (PDF) posted on the site, and a Facebook page dedicated to the book. Check it out.
And as long as I’m mentioning CAPsters’ books, I should also recommend The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America–and What We Need in Return by Brian Katulis and Nancy Soderbergh and The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen. Obviously, you have no business buying any books whatsoever — especially about US politics and public policy issues — if you haven’t already bought Heads in the Sand.
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August 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
1) There’s something hilarious about intellectual advocates for the poor not realizing that the poor have neither the money to buy the intellectuals’ books nor the time (due to holding down two or more low-paying jobs.)
2) Based on several emails I’ve received, I gather that wealthy patrons of the right wing propagandists put people like Ann Coulter on the best-selling lists by arranging mass buys of new books at EXTREMELY low, subsidized prices. (Equivalent of straw purchases of guns.) If you are a rich man, you can BUY your sock puppet gravitas.
3) Progressives, unfortunately, have no such angels. (Well, MoveOn gets checks from Soros. Presumably for Soros’s own purposes.)
Lack of financial angels may explain why Tribunes for the People inevitably become corrupt whores — it’s been a tradition since Tiberius Gracchus. (No , Tiberius didn’t sell out –but read up on his fellow tribune.)
4) Hence, class warfare tends to be between two sets of elites — both of whom do not give a hairy rodent’s posterior for the real interests of the common citizen.
Rather, the weaker elite tries to gain additional power by soliciting support from the people (or claim such support for propaganda reasons) while the stronger elite sees no need to pretend that it is anything other than a self-serving plutocracy.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
What, you think conservative bacteria oxygenated the third atmosphere?? Get real. They were all “photosynthesis is unnatural” and “cyanobacteria are undermining traditional Siderian values”.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
There is hope, however. When the self-serving greed and selfish corruption of the Republicans run the nation and economy into the ditch, then popular anger starts to build.
At that point, the market value of progressive spokemen grows as the plutocrats decide that they need to coopt the revolution before any real harm is done to their interests.
They elect a smiling Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson in order to bleed off support for real reformers.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Plus roughly half of our voters are morons who exhibit what I call the Baby Turtle Syndrome.
From http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles
“ROME (Reuters) – About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.
The baby turtles — which ended up under the tables of startled diners at the beachside restaurant — were probably thrown off track and lured by the eatery’s bright lights, said Antonio Colucci, who was called to help rescue the group.”
Just look at the Hillary supporters, for example.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
“I’m not really sure progressives did save our climate at any point in the past …”
I was thinking the ozone layer?
August 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The 1970’s passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Act, emissions standards for cars, mileage standards for cars, etc. Yes, not perfect. But changing those trendlines was so important that it should never be taken for granted. There’s a reason that LA’s air, while not clean enough, is cleaner than it was 30 years ago and is 3 times cleaner than Beijing’s. And we almost never have rivers catch fire anymore.
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