Progressive Power (Draft)

When will the opposition identify what it opposes? Most importantly, when will it confront the fact that it opposes human beings??? the only way for progressives to get ahead of the right is to treat them as humans, deeply flawed maybe, but humans none the less, fully deserving of that basic acknowledgment. Progressive power can only come from the humanization of the opposition. This is the lesson of Paul Wellstone. Its up to those who believe that a better world is possible to do the work of seeing humans even when 'they' are doing everything possible to hide their humanness, i.e. their connectedness to all life, the connectedness that demands responsibility for the whole.

This is a war of rhetoric. How to undermine what the right has done should be the goal. But first the progressive or anti-Bush forces need to come to terms with the reality that the right has succeeded, with its rhetoric, in undermining the general public's faith in liberalism.