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1. He's right - the Common Good is more & more a foreign concept in the U.S.

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Sat Apr 6, 2013, 07:18 PM

Apr 2013

More like an alien concept, since it's rarely taught, verbalized, or discussed anywhere in the general public. Even the word "public" carries a kind of stigma because that concept has been marginalized and replaced by "the private sector" and "the free market."

Without that vision and experience, there's no real democracy in this country.

I mourn our loss of it every day, and I took it for granted all my life. It's tragic.

(Thanks for posting the article - bookmarked.)

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He's right - the Common Good is more & more a foreign concept in the U.S. We People Apr 2013 #1

Welcome to the Inerfaith group. cbayer Apr 2013 #2