July 12, 2011     Permalink Tweet: Progressive Leadership To Serve the Common Good: .ly/onMsuA Submitted by Michael Dewey

At a time when millions of Americans have lost either their job or their home, or both, due to corporate avarice or malfeasance, it is curious that so many nevertheless oppose a government role in the economy and continue to place their faith, instead, in the workings of a largely unregulated free-enterprise system that has produced the very conditions from which they now suffer.   It's as if the Stockholm syndrome had re-emerged as a central dynamic in American politics.