Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.
Jim HightowerWell, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
Jim HightowerThe only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Jim HightowerThere's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Jim Hightower