The Voices

openleft.com — To build a big, powerful, effective, and truly diverse progressive movement — one capable of actually winning — all of us need to do our best to step back and remember some things.

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huffingtonpost.com — Almost half of America's youngest workers believe the nation's best days may have come and gone. Ninety percent say the social contract is broken and 87 percent — the largest portion in any age group — are calling out for a new one.

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thenation.com — There are close to 13 million 18- to 25-year-olds, who have never been enrolled in college in America. So far only about three million voted in the primaries. These non-college youths come disproportionately from lower-income backgrounds and African American and Latino communities. What will it take to mobilize over 10 million non-college youth to come out in November?

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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — With the clear end of the Bush era in sight, we need to be thinking about the day after the presidential election, and about how progressives will operate in a non-Bush world.

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truthdig.com — The fact that African-American patriotism is never simple doesn’t mean it's in any way halfhearted; to the contrary, complicated relationships tend to be the deepest and strongest. It doesn't, of course. It never has. Black Americans are just more intimately and acutely aware of some of our nation's flaws than many white Americans might be.

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huffingtonpost.com — Realpolitik is one thing. Realstupidpolitik is quite another.

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truthdig.com — The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have shown again their willingness to abandon precedent in order to do whatever is necessary to further the agenda of the contemporary political right.

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openleft.com — Just because right-wingers use words and phrases like faith, family, values, hard work, self-reliance, country and patriotism doesn't mean we shouldn't be proudly using them as well. That's not using their framing; it's using words that rightly belong more to us than to them.

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thenation.com — Young people who want work and cannot find it are being sent the wrong message. Is this a country that really respects hard work if it places no value on creating work? Indeed, what message does this nation want to send its youth?

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