The Ignored Issue That Can Get Progressives Elected

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The Ignored Issue That Can Get Progressives Elected
By Riane Eisler, AlterNet
Posted on September 13, 2007,

A recent poll found that the biggest issue for voters as the 2008 election approaches is not the Iraq war. It's an issue that leaders have not been focusing on: the well-being of America's children.

The poll asked conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women, Christians and non-Christians which of 11 changes were "absolutely necessary" for the United States to address within the next 10 years. The 11 ranged from national security and environmental protection to the state of marriage and families and the spiritual state of the country. But the issues that emerged as the frontrunners were "the overall care and resources devoted to children" and "the quality of a public school education." That was the response by 82 percent of the adults surveyed. What's even more interesting is that this poll was conducted by the Barna Group, a Christian polling organization.

Of course, the religious right has made a great deal of "family values" over the last decades. But the "overall care and resources devoted to children" was hardly what they focused on. On the contrary, many of their policies have been terribly detrimental to children.

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[applegrove]

1. Sounds like a plan!

[kwolf68]

2. Good find...

And a true wakeup call to not only those of us on the Left, but those so-called Conservative Christians who need to STFU about bullshit issues (God on the dollar, the pledge) and actually try to make the world BETTER for the kids who are here. Leaving them a planet full of rubble, strip malls, depleted air to breath, dangerous food, machines to extinguish life on every street corner, hatred and intolerance of the unlike probably isnt' the way to go.

[Fridays Child]

3. kicking...

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