Time to Deliver

Last week, in Part I of this short series, I talked about the three main scenarios that dominate progressive conversations about America's future: more »

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In my last article, I argued that Scenario #3 is a chimera -- and Terrance's sobering list of everything that's wrong "here" and now brought it home with grave finality. There is no going back. That future was foreclosed on right along with the houses and the banks. You can only believe in the Happy Face story if you willfully ignore the deep structural changes afoot in the way the world works -- the changes that have closed and locked the door back to "normal" behind us for good.

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Last week, I wrote: "After a transformational election and at the beginning of a transformational presidency, progressives need to remember: the real transformation hasn't happened yet." The truth is, there will be a transformation. The question is what kind of transformation.

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Terrance Heath kicked off our conversation by invoking Alexis de Tocqueville's observation that change comes about as a "revolution of expectations." Since how people greet and adapt to transformative change is a subject I'm rather passionate about, I'd like to riff on this a bit. more »

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After a transformational election and at the beginning of a transformational presidency, progressives need to remember: the real transformation hasn’t happened yet. Starting this week, fellow blogger Sara Robinson and I will launch a "blog conversation" about the progressive values at the core of the president's budget, how to talk about it importance, and what progressives can do to pass the first truly progressive budget we've seen in decades. But it's not just a conversation between us. We hope you'll join in.

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