Stand up for moral value of economic justice

[damntexdem]

A good perspectives piece from the Baltimore Sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.morality19nov19,1,3958983.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines.

DEMOCRATS ARE complaining bitterly that about 80 percent of Americans who cited "moral values" as their most important issue in exit polls voted for President Bush.

How can anyone concerned about moral values, they wonder, endorse a leader who misled this country into war, arranged for billionaires to pay less in taxes and gave the United States and hopes for democracy a bad name around the globe?

How can anyone concerned about moral values vote for a man whose first term saw such dramatic increases in poverty and inequality?



But this easy amazement obscures a deeper problem: If the Democratic Party platform and candidate for president embodied moral values more faithfully than the Republicans, why didn't a large percentage of people voting Democratic cite moral values as their highest concern?

[Maat]

1. because Democrats tend to cite the specific subject ...

rather than boxing it with a big red ribbon of moral values.

I've started framing my principles a certain way as a result of it - I tell acquaintances that I'm all for moral values, and killing over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqis doesn't fit within my moral framework.