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Winning Politics (1221 words) |
 | They yearn for a politics that speaks to and includes them--affordable childcare, a good education for their children, health and retirement security, good jobs that will support their families, respect for the environment and human rights, clean elections and clean campaigns. |
| Progressive politics is successful when it is not top-down and elitist and when it respects the capacity of ordinary citizens. |
| Policy provides direction and an agenda for action; grassroots organizing builds a constituency to fight for change; and electoral politics is the main way, in the absence of sweeping social movements, that we contest for power and hold decision-makers accountable for progressive public policy. |
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Gay Politics: It’s 2001, Not 1890 (1177 words) |
| There is nothing in the present political world that is hindering two men from living together and affecting a family way, and they are perfectly free to negotiate terms of medical coverage with their employers. |
| A libertarian is bound by political principle to oppose all of it. |
| But because we live in 2001 and not 1890, the side of liberty is with the forces that are working to oppose special privileges for gays in the law. |
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