Democrats and "market values": what we need to be saying...

[Ken Burch]

One of the most insidious things that the GOP has done has been to insist that everything in this country's economic and social system must conform to "market values".

By this they mean the state can never protect anyone who's been uprooted by the machinations of the rich, that culture must be based on what sells, that nothing that doesn't turn a profit can be allowed to survive.

Many of our Democratic politicians, terrified of being seen as "anti-business", have left these memes unchallenged.

In doing so, they make it impossible for themselves to do anything that is distinguishable from Reaganism/Bushism. In accepting this, our Democratic politicians make themselves irrelevant and
doom themselves to defeat, although they get large donations from corporations for so dooming themselves.

We as activists need to press them to reject this.

We need to get our officeholders and candidates to be able to stand up and say"not everything is about money. Sometimes human dignity and decency have to come first. A society where everything has to be run by 'the market' is a society with no humanity and no soul."

Any ideas of how we create the pressure to get them to make these stands?