Reply #3: Yes -- The difference between them and liberals is fatalism [View All]

[Armstead]

I lot of wingers hate corporations. But they accept the conservative agenda because they figure "Well there's nothing you can do about it. That's just the way the world works."

A basic tenant of liberals and progressives is that we are not helpless pawns of "the markets" and the powerful. We CAN do something about it.

The problem is that we have lost the will and ability to convey that sense of positive activism to people. And too many "centrist" establishment Democrats have also bought into the same basic line of "We can't do anything to upset the Holy Markets."