This column on Campus Progress is pretty good, despite the fact that it calls for Democrats to propose a counter-FMA that would make the Defense of Marriage Act part of the constitution! The good points that the column makes are two:
I. Democrats know what they stand for and so does the electorate. They know we deal with corporate cronyism and regulate the environment. They know we'll improve schools. They know we'll balance the budget.
What they don't know is what we stand against. The Right Wing Media like to shout about our Bush-hating and alienation from the mainstream, but the fact is that no one knows who and what makes us angry. Which aspect of society is inimical to our idea of America?
I, for one, am happy to take a stand against creationists and everyone else who hates knowledge. Those people are not consistent with my America. Neither are rapacious CEOs who loot their employees' pensions. We should take advantage of the symbolic strength of opposition--it's a shortcut to a clear-cut position that doesn't require years of think tank position papers.
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