Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. - Charles A. Reich

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

All of us are responding to the fact there is no system that can keep any promises. Everybody is fighting each other under the illusion that it is the "other people" that are causing the problem. We don't realize that we are all in the same boat. We are all suffering from the absence of a system that can pull us together and assure us that the results of each person's work will come back to him and enhance his life in some way. Neither Democrats nor Republicans today offer any vision of how we can overcome our present difficulties and build a more satisfying life. Both offer merely palliatives and, at best, a holding pattern. We have to look beyond the politicians to see a different future.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.