Edwin: And a metaphor is a grasping?
Jim: Just a lot of arms reaching out, plucking, extracting, shoving, and pocketing.
Edwin: Kind of like Shiva, a million hands?
Jim: Yeah, something like that. That sounds good.
Progressive Values Metaphor: Jim Hightower - The Blogs
Edwin: And a metaphor for progressive values?
Jim: Well, I mean, to me it’s not unlike the blogs that we have here. That’s a good metaphor. It’s little d democracy, little d democratic power. Of people coming together in a shared community and building something that’s a whole new avenue for the common good to be expressed in our society. Not just in politics, but in all aspects of our lives.
Progressive Values: Jim Hightower - Fairness, Justice and the Common Good
Edwin: What are progressive values to you?
Jim: Well, I think progressive values are indeed the founding values of America, and values that are at the core of just about American values, and those are economic fairness, social justice, and equal opportunity for all people. That’s really what America represents.
And the failure has been recently on the part of the political leadership, corporate leadership, media leadership, religious leadership, educational leadership, the failure to those factors. The failure to appeal to the notion of the common good. The idea that we are all in this together.
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