Tom Sullivan has a piece at Hullabaloo this morning that echoes something I've been saying for a long time: Our morality, in spite of what you hear from the money-grubbing Bible-thumpers, is based on one simple tenet: we take care of each other.
Sullivan starts off with a longish Twitter thread, but here's the gist:
His basic examples are drawn from the military, but his thrust is to translate those values -- more than "American" values, they are human values -- into civilian life -- life as most of us know it.
Read it.
Sullivan starts off with a longish Twitter thread, but here's the gist:
Markos wrote this in 2006:
There's a reason most vets running for office this year are running as Democrats. The military is perhaps the ideal society -- we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return. All our basic needs were met -- housing, food, and medical care. It was as close to a color-blind society as I have ever seen. We looked out for one another. The Army invested in us. I took heavily subsidized college courses and learned to speak German on the Army's dime. I served with people from every corner of the country. I got to party at the Berlin Wall after it fell and explored Prague in those heady post-communism days. I wasn't just a tourist; I was a witness to history.
The Army taught me the very values that make us progressives -- community, opportunity, and investment in people and the future.
His basic examples are drawn from the military, but his thrust is to translate those values -- more than "American" values, they are human values -- into civilian life -- life as most of us know it.
Read it.
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