[F]or all our protestations, the official progressive movement is but so progressive. The conservative movement, having lost its damn mind long ago, dredge up the craziest voices they can find...I swear, I think they search them out...but to my mind progressives stop well before the point where the good ideas start getting a little loopy...never mind the point where the good ideas get scary.
Today E. J. Dionne Jr. said
What passes for "left" in American politics is quite moderate by historical standards...
...the "good ideas" that voters are demanding mostly have to do with problems that have been framed by the left, not the right: the need to disengage from Iraq, to create health security, to ease economic inequalities. It's time to update our sense of where the political center lies and to adjust our view of "the left" accordingly.
It's funny...what progressives are looking for are the potentials they always had before (or, in some cases the potentials they were always supposed to have before). In this particular regard, it seems conservatives are the ones looking for change.
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