Electric Politics | A Manifesto

George Kenney throws down his ideas, read them - there's room for almost everybody and I think it fits with what most us are thinking. [excerpt] "What is to be done? Removing politics to the extent possible from our thoughts, what public policy priorities make sense? Not the small stuff, like health care, trade, regulation, social security, etc., but big things, the meta-policies that carry us forward as a civilization. There are, I think, three issues or perhaps more accurately clusters of issues that we must address. First is to get control of military spending, reducing it promptly by half with an eye towards further cuts. Second is to switch from a carbon economy to clean, renewable energy. And third is to tax the rich severely. If even one of these things cannot be accomplished we risk losing everything. ... " Electric Politics A Manifesto