The following article was written to take religious progressives to task for their insignificance in the current political debate. The author lists 7 issues he thinks religious progressives should fight for. One of these, as you might have guessed, is a single-payer healthcare system. I have to say I agree with the other planks of this platform as well. They're issues that both the religious and non-religious should get behind if they truly believe in social justice.
Peter Laarman: All Stand Down: Conceptual Confusion on the Religious Left
from HuffingtonPost.com
... My own list of unifying issues would include: (1) attacking domestic poverty by insisting on livable wages and the right to organize; (2) implementing a radically different energy policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions; (3) demanding a return to progressive taxation in the United States of America; (4) guaranteeing health care for all through some form of single payer system; (5) saving American democracy itself by separating our legislators from the corporate teat; (6) dismantling America's dysfunctional and appallingly racist prison-industrial complex; and (7) transforming foreign policy through serious development assistance for the Global South and a reversal of the "dominance doctrine" the neocons put into place following 9-11. ...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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