General Discussion

equal rights, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, health care for all, strict regulation of the environment as well as of Wall Street and the safety of conditions in the workplace, a woman's right to choose, public education including very strong and generous support for public colleges and universities, our scientific programs, public ownership of national and state parks as well as of our highways (no toll roads), increases in taxes on the very rich and investment in our infrastructure and in saving our environment.

No liberal supports the NSA surveillance as it is now being done, excessive secrecy in government, the extreme corruption in Washington, D.C., our overfilled prisons, our lack of adequate mental health care for the poor, media consolidation, monopolies, militarized police forces, or corporate personhood.

It's just not logically possible to be a liberal and fail to back those policies that will increase human freedom and welfare while opposing those policies which are oppressive and which cause human suffering.

For myself, I believe that the universe is energy expressed in many different forms, and that beneath the cruelty and apathy, the greed and repression, we are all one. What hurts one of us hurts the total that we all are.