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Who’s Got Your Back? (How Likely is a Left-Right Alliance)
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In The Tea Party Movement: A Populist Potential, I first explored the possibility of a cooperative effort by activists from the Left and Tea Party activists on the Right. I made the argument that something like that happening may not be as far fetched as it might sound. The Poli-Tea blog took the question further in a series of posts and a fascinating discussion ensued in the comments section.
The Tea Party Phenomenon
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I am a registered independent because I feel neither of the two major parties truly represents my interests. Absent a strong third party movement, the best thing voters who are fed up with the status quo can do is to take the reins and be active and engaged participants in the civic arena and to make their voices heard so they cannot be ignored. In short, be active, engaged constituents.
As a liberal I am quite happy when I see this type of civic engagement among ordinary people and voters when they come out in force in support of things I care about such as the public option in healthcare or when they take a critical eye to the goings on in Washington DC and expose corruption and betrayals of Progressive interests by legislators who claim to represent the Progressive point of view.
However, the Left does not have a monopoly on civic engagement. Conservatives and Libertarians have as much right as I do to take the reins of asserting their fundamental rights and to make their case by being active in the public sphere. Thus, despite my disagreements with them on ideological and policy grounds, I can’t help but notice how effective the Tea Party movement has been at getting the attention of the Establishment and the nation at large.
Book Review: The Progressive Revolution
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Mike Lux begins his book The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, with a history lesson of how the struggle between Progressives and Conservatives was evident in the founding of America. Invoking the spirit of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence through the drafting of the Constitution and defining the Bill of Rights, Lux frames Progressivism as an essentially American idea based on the basic principles in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the revolutionary writings of Paine and other heroes of American history.
Transpartisan Alliance
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I just got news of an interesting event to happen this week called the American Citizens’ Summit in Denver, Colorado organized by an entity called the Transpartisan Alliance:
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The Transpartisan Alliance is an informal network of networks facilitating cooperation among individuals and organizations from all political points of view.
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