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If Leadership Is About Anything, It's About Leading. Not Leading People Back To Where They Already Are, Because They Don't Need That. They're Already There.

Today, For Good Or Ill, People Are Thinking About Many Social Problems From The Standpoint Of Their Own Kitchen Tables. I Think The Way To Begin A Conversation With People About What's Going On Is To Address Their Daily Experiences, And What Their Fears And Frustrations, As Well As Their Exhilarations, Are.

What We Really Need To Understand Here Is That It`s All About Power. This Is Where The Surge Is Coming From For Bernie Sanders. In Some Ways, It`s A Very Different - It`s A Different Surge, But It`s Coming Out Of The Same Sort Of Sense Of Fundamental Powerlessness And Anger And Frustration For Donald Trump.

I Am Not An Economic Determinist. If I Were, I Would Throw Up My Hands; I Just Would Not Bother. I Think It's Wrong To Be An Economic Determinist. I Think It's Wrong To Simply Say, "well, Inevitably, If You're Poor, You're Going To Get A Lousy Education; If You're Lower-middle Class, The Cards Are Going To Be Stacked Against You, And You'll Probably Never Get Anywhere".

The Silent Majority Really Is A Liberal Majority, Even Though The Word Liberal Has Taken A Real Beating Over The Last 20 Years By Radical Conservatives.