So long as the health care battle is focused on the model of market competition—the very notion that health care is best conceived as a for-profit industry—the whole debate is a non-starter. If a meaningful health care reform is to pass, Democrats and liberals will have to return to their social justice roots.
Specters abound in the contemporary world, and they are every bit as terrifying as Hamlet's were. Think of the invisible, ghostly threat of "terror"; think of the terrifying specter of one's life's savings vanished in an instant.
New dimensions of criminality and injustice in the world of finance are revealed every day. So why are religious progressives—who know a thing or two about revelation—still posing, equivocating, and trimming around the edges while poor people suffer at the hands of a predator elite?
"They don't sound much like experts," the child said. And, as we watch the latest news about the banks and the government, we must sadly agree.
