Taking Our Country Back From the Right: A Strategy for Liberals and Progressives for the Coming Two Years
"We have learned to expect that argument both from alleged 'centrists' in the Democratic Party like Majority Leader of the House of Representatives Stenny Hoyer, who managed to keep the funding for the war in Iraq moving smoothly through a Democratic controlled Congress, and from the “liberal wing” of the Democrats, who imagined that they had won a great victory when they got Nancy Pelosi elected Speaker of the House (before she became an enabler of Bush’s militarism, pro-torture policies, and invasion of domestic civil liberties, while strenuously insisting that 'impeachment was off the table').
"But now we are also hearing it from many progressives: particularly those who correctly feel that they made a mistake in 2000 in backing Nader not only in the states where it was “safe” to do so (namely, where it was so clearly either Bush or Gore who would win that a protest vote was not going to impact at all) but also where it was not so safe—Florida and Ohio." --Rabbi Michael Lerner, from a recent article
So, where does liberal, progressive America go from here? Is there a way to pull America back from the far right agenda to a more centrist position? Join us as we hear Rabbi Lerner's thoughts on how to approach the next Presidential election.
Michael Lerner is an American rabbi, political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco. He has written numerous books on various subjects, including The Left Hand of God (2006) and The Politics of Meaning (1996). Rabbi Lerner founded the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) in 2005, an international political and social justice movement based in the United States that seeks to influence American politics towards more humane, progressive values. The organization also challenges what it perceives as the misuse of religion by political conservatives and the anti-religious attitudes of many liberals. In the international sphere, the NSP seeks to foster inter-religious understanding and work for social justice.
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