Huffpost

Last night I found myself screaming at the television. What the commentators seemed to be saying was “Well, yeah, those folks out in Oregon, those mostly white folks out in Oregon, they did vote for Barack Obama, but, you know, they’re the exception in this country because they’re just so weird.

“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.” —Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 1798. There is nothing “normal” about a nation having a middle class, even though it is vital to the survival of democracy.

There are times when doing the profitable thing is also doing the right thing.