Socialist Progressives

To defeat neoliberalism, one has to uphold PRINCIPLES that apply to everyone. One has to fight against exceptions and special treatments for the powerful and rich.

This is very hard work, and the American culture, fancying itself an empire, is more and more unprincipled and unegalitarian. The underpinnings of democracy are basic principles which have come unpinned. And in some cases (race and sex bigotry) those principles never became fully pinned in the first place, despite a century or two of effort.

Oh, most people will mouth the words, but when it comes down to taking a stand, most people won't even do a sit-down strike.