There's a worrying trend within "moderate liberalism" nowadays... [View all]

[Ken Burch]

We're seeing a fair amount of victories on the rights front, and that's a great thing.

But they're being accompanied by calls for austerity even among some "liberals", by continued efforts to weaken unions and lower wages, and by a general sense that working-class people are being cut loose.

This is a dangerous combination for the groups that are gaining rights.

When you have a situation in which it looks(unfairly, but that's how it looks)like a few groups are gaining while a large group is losing, the groups that are perceived to be gaining will be lashed out at and subject to campaigns to strip them of their rights.

The only way to prevent that is for "progressive" forces to be seen as fighting against the exclusion and against the marginalization of those on the lower end who feel left out.