"humanitarian populist alliance" is stronger than "transpartisan"
Webster
discourse here just a little bit.
politics inherently is partisan and that's not bad.
it's a pervasive cold elitism that's ... problematic.
"humanitarian populist" speaks to ... shared values and a shared
trust in the virtue and capability of plain folks (like us) ... which
might create a valuable space of respect in which to conduct our
properly ferocious principled fights -- a space, if I may steal a
phrase from some Friends of ours, to hold them to the Light.
Anything like Question Time ... which allows our elected officials to
climb out of their bubbles for a little while and just be people ...
elected by people to come to grips with some genuinely hard
problems ... is a good thing.
Um, to quote the Webster's 11th Law of Web Proficiency, Pariser's
Law: "It's not about us, it's about you."
Ralph
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PS, is it just me or wasn't there a ghastly under-representation of
women at Blair? How a bunch of dudes expect to solve a problem of
this magnitude without an equal number of dudettes as equal
partners ... totally escapes me.
Micah Sifry
What interested me about that transpartisan thing was not so much the guy's post as the video showing people from Al Gore to Grover Norquist, Moveon to Christian Coalition, meeting face to face and finding some human commonality. Akin to your humanitarian populist alliance, perhaps.
Anyway, no need to beat this particular (transpartisan) horse any further.
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