Katrina vanden Heuvel
(1960-)

American Social Reformer & Political Magazine Editor

birthdate: January 1
birthplace:
New York, New York

QUOTES

Too often liberals construct a political system which involves top-down organization. Whereas progressives, more often, believe ordinary people have the right, wisdom, and good sense to organize their own politics, and build movements from the bottom up.

On issue after issue, the polls -- and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time -- show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

 

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