Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with a purpose so we can shake our butts and not let this man steal our joy; and we're going to do big concerts and revivals with some of the biggest artists in the world. If [Donald] Trump can have 20,000 people for big hate rallies then we can have 40,000 people in arenas for love rallies.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?