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# 1 Many Liberals Don't Like the Idea of Battle, But the Alternative in America Today is Much Worse

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We should be thankful that ours is a different kind of battle from the one my father's generation had to fight. They had to put their lives on the line, while we just need to set our preferred lives temporarily aside. They had to fight with the weapons of war, while we get to fight with the truth as our weapon.

It is our good fortune that we retain enough of our democracy that our battle will be decided not by seizing territory by force but by shaping the understanding of the American people.

I've got a plan for how we can strike a meaningful blow in that battle of words and ideas.

In the coming weeks, I'll be presenting here a series of articles dealing with both sides of our political pathology. This series, with the name "Press the Battle," will make the case -- and make it stick -- against the force that's taken over the Republican Party, calling out its repugnant and destructive nature.

And, at the same time, this series will confront the sources of Liberal America's weakness and try to light a fire in Liberal America, kindling the latent power of our moral and spiritual passions.

With this series, I will ask not just for your attention but also for your help. It is my hope that you will work with me to find ways of getting our national conversation to focus on the true nature of what's gone wrong in America.

Changing our national conversation is necessary for setting things right. Is it not a kind of insanity for this nation to treat today's Republican Party as if it were something almost normal, respectable, acceptable? That's not how you treat something that's trampling on all those values that made the nation great.

I, for one, am determined that my grandchildren will not ask me someday, "Why didn't you trouble yourself to do something while America became a society that's ruled by greed and the lust for power, that's deceived by propaganda masquerading as news, that exploits rather than serves its people?"

I hope you share that determination.

Watch this space.

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