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Monday, April 25, 2011

Maddow Leans Forward

From a rhetorical standpoint (for those of you who don't know, my PhD is from Berkeley Rhet), Rachel Maddow is better than almost anybody else anybody is paying attention to at the moment at showing the Liberal Left how to frame and argue for a more sustainable secular equitable and diverse democratic America even in the midst of our present distress. She's been one of my heroes since I first heard her on Air America, a couple of years before she started showing up on my tee vee.



Watch all nine segments (just keep clicking "Next" at the end of each one), collectively, they tell much of the story Democrats should be telling and repeating to the whole country all the time, and loudly, every chance we get, to the extent that what we need to be doing as a major party in the service of actually progressive ends, is re-writing patriotism in the image of public service and trust, progressive investment for all, and liberty as equity-in-diversity.

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