Start Making Sense: How To Talk To America

The following is Part II in a series of transcripts taken from a standing-room-only book panel in San Francisco for AlterNet’s new book, Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics.

We are living in the good old days. The century defining crises have yet to hit. The energy crunch, peak oil has yet to hit. The globalization; China, India coming on line and finally being able to come into their own; that has not yet hit and affected our economy. Global warming hasn’t hit. The massive species extinctions haven’t hit. We are in the good old days. Whatever movement prepares itself now not to protest but to govern.