Kevin Drum lays out a policy list lefty bloggers might generally agree on. Chait kick-started this latest round of debate. Atrios carried it forward. Read the manifesto. Some proposals I like (scaling down the war on drugs, supporting marriage, bringing back the estate tax, backing states’ rights). Most I dislike (progressive taxation, clumsy statist enivronmental policy, indexing the minimum wage, ending abstinence education, making Medicare even more costly). But it’s a useful Rorschach test for our new ideologically fluid polity.
(Update: I misread Kevin’s post. He wrote "abstinence-only education." I too disagree with sex education that only includes abstinence counseling. But I see no reason why such counseling shouldn’t be part of such an education.)
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